Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity

Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 1/13/2022
EAN 9781316511725, ISBN10: 1316511723

Hardcover, 223 pages, 25.7 x 17.5 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Sidney Coleman (1937–2007) earned his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann. Before completing his thesis, he was hired by Harvard and remained there his entire career. A celebrated particle theorist, he is perhaps best known for his brilliant lectures, given at Harvard and in a series of summer school courses at Erice, Sicily. Three times in the 1960s he taught a graduate course on Special and General Relativity; this book is based on lecture notes taken by three of his students and compiled by the Editors.

Preface. Part I. Special Relativity
1. The geometry of special relativity
2. Relativistic mechanics
3. Relativistic electrodynamics. Part II. General Relativity
4. The principle of equivalence
5. Differential geometry
6. Gravity
7. The Schwarzschild solution
8. Conservation and cosmology
Afterword
Appendix A – Compendium of formulas
Appendix B – Final exams. Index.