Gravitation：Foundations and Frontiers引力——基础与前沿（影印版）

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印刷时间：2013年07月01日
开本：16开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9787301227879
丛书名：中外物理学精品书系·引进系列
作者:（印度）帕德马纳班　著出版社:北京大学出版社出版时间:2013年07月

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Preface
How to use this book
1　Special relativity
　1.1 Introduction
　1.2 The principles of special relativity
　1.3 Transformation of coordinates and velocities
　　1.3.1 Lorentz transformation
　　1.3.2 Transformation of velocities
　　1.3.3 Lorentz boost in an arbitrary direction
　1.4 Four-vectors
　　1.4.1 Four-velocity and acceleration
　1.5 Tensors

List of exercises 
List of projects 
Preface 
How to use this book 
1　Special relativity 
　1.1   Introduction 
　1.2  The principles of special relativity 
　1.3  Transformation of coordinates and velocities 
　　1.3.1  Lorentz transformation 
　　1.3.2  Transformation of velocities 
　　1.3.3  Lorentz boost in an arbitrary direction 
　1.4  Four-vectors 
　　1.4.1  Four-velocity and acceleration 
　1.5  Tensors 
　1.6  Tensors as geometrical objects 
　1.7  Volume and surface integrals in four dimensions 
　1.8  Particle dynamics 
　1.9  The distribution function and its moments 
　1.10 The Lorentz group and Pauli matrices 
2　Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity 
　2.1  Introduction 
　2.2  External fields of force 
　2.3  Classical scalar field 
　　2.3.1  Dynamics of a particle interacting with a scalar
field 
　　2.3.2  Action and dynamics of the scalar field 
　　2.3.3  Energy-momentum tensor for the scalar field 
　　2.3.4  Free field and the wave solutions 
　　2.3.5  Why does the scalar field lead to an attractive
force? 
　2.4  Electromagnetic field 
　　2.4.1  Charged particle in an electromagnetic field 
　　2.4.2  Lorentz transformation of electric and magnetic
fields 
　　2.4.3  Current vector 
　2.5   Motion in the Coulomb field 
　2.6  Motion in a constant electric field 
　2.7  Action principle for the vector field 
　2.8   Maxwell's equations 
　2.9  Energy and momentum of the electromagnetic field 
　2.10 Radiation from an accelerated charge 
　2.11  Larmor formula and radiation reaction 
3　Gravity and spaeetime geometry: the inescapable connection 
　3.1   Introduction 
　3.2  Field theoretic approaches to gravity 
　3.3   Gravity as a scalar field 
　3.4   Second rank tensor theory of gravity 
　3.5   The principle of equivalence and the geometrical
description　of gravity 
　　 3.5.1  Uniformly accelerated observer 
　　 3.5.2  Gravity and the flow of time 
4　Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative 
　 4.1   Introduction 
　 4.2  Metric tensor and gravity 
　 4.3   Tensor algebra in curved spacetime 
　 4.4  Volume and surface integrals 
　 4.5   Geodesic curves 
　　 4.5.1  Properties of geodesic curves 
　　 4.5.2  Affine parameter and null geodesics 
　 4.6  Covariant derivative 
　　 4.6.1  Geometrical interpretation of the covariant
derivative 
　　 4.6.2  Manipulation of covariant derivatives 
　 4.7   Parallel transport 
　 4.8   Lie transport and Killing vectors 
　 4.9   Fermi-Walker transport 
5　Curvature of spaeetime 
　 5.1   Introduction 
　 5.2   Three perspectives on the spacetime
curvature 
　　 5.2.1  Parallel transport around a closed curve 
　　 5.2.2  Non-commutativity of covariant derivatives
　……

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