General relativity: a guide to its consequences for gravity and cosmology

The book entitled ''General Relativity'' is based on a third year undergraduate course at King's College, London, and links the theory with observation. The subjects discussed include:-the principle of equivalence, special relativity, curved space-time, Riemann tensor, curvature, empty space-time, black holes, the matter tensor, cosmology, a spherically symmetric star, and weak gravity and gravity waves. (U.K.)