TY - BOOK ID - 135225616 TI - Lectures on gravitation PY - 2011 SN - 1283148625 9786613148629 9814329398 9789814329392 9789814329378 9814329371 9789814329385 981432938X PB - Singapore Hackensack, NJ World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - General relativity (Physics) KW - Big bang theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135225616 AB - This book is a compilation of the lectures for a one-semester course on gravitation at the University of Rochester. Starting from a simple description of geometry, the topics are systematically developed to the big bang theory with a simple derivation of the cosmic background temperature. Several informative examples are worked out in detail as well. ER -