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1、AnIntroductiontoRelativityGeneralrelativityisnowanessentialpartofundergraduateandgraduatecoursesinphysics,astrophysicsandappliedmathematics.Thissimple,user-friendlyintroductiontorelativityisidealforafirstcourseinthesubject.Thetextbookbeginswithacomprehensive,butsimple,reviewofspecialrela
2、tivity,creatingaframeworkfromwhichtolaunchtheideasofgeneralrelativity.Afterdescribingthebasictheory,itmovesontodescribeimportantapplicationstoastrophysics,black-holephysics,andcosmology.Severalworkedexamples,andnumerousfiguresandimages,helpstu-dentsappreciatetheunderlyingconcepts.Therear
3、ealso180exercises,whichtestanddevelopstudents’understandingofthesubject.Thetextbookpresentsallthenecessaryinformationanddiscus-sionforanelementaryapproachtorelativity.Password-protectedsolu-tionstotheexercisesareavailabletoinstructorsatwww.cambridge.org/9780521735612.JAYANTV.NARLIKARisE
4、meritusProfessorattheInter-UniversityCentreforAstronomyandAstrophysics,Pune,India.HeisauthorofAnIntroduc-tiontoCosmology,nowinitsthirdedition(CambridgeUniversityPress,2002),andhasbeenactiveinteachingandresearchingcosmology,theoret-icalastrophysics,gravitationandrelativityfornearlyfivedec
5、ades.AnIntroductiontoRelativityJayantV.NarlikarInter-UniversityCentreforAstronomyandAstrophysicsPune,IndiaCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SaoPaulo,Delhi,˜Dubai,TokyoCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedinth
6、eUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521735612CJ.Narlikar2010Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake
7、placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublished2010PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,CambridgeAcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibraryLibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdataNarlikar,JayantVishnu,1938–Anintroduct
