General Relativity: Proceedings of the Forty Sixth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (Aberdeen, July 1995) 9780750303958, 0750303956, 0750304197

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General Relativity: Proceedings of the Forty Sixth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (Aberdeen, July 1995)
9780750303958, 0750303956, 0750304197

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Table of contents :
Title ......Page 1
Date-line ......Page 2
Series contents ......Page 3
Lecturers ......Page 5
Preface ......Page 7
Contents ......Page 8
Mathematics of General Relativity (Bernd Schmidt) ......Page 9
Partial Differential Equations of Physics (Robert Geroch) ......Page 27
Gravitostatics and Rotating Bodies (Gemot Neugebauer) ......Page 69
A Guide to Basic Exact Solutions (Zoltan Perjes) ......Page 91
Relativistic Cosmology (John Wainwright) ......Page 115
Black Holes in Cosmology and Astrophysics (Bernard Carr) ......Page 151
Source of Gravitational Waves (Jose Alberto Lobo) ......Page 211
Detection of Gravitational Waves (Norna A Robertson) ......Page 231
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment. A 1995 Update (Clifford M Will)......Page 247
Algebraic Computing in General Relativity (Ray D'Inverno) ......Page 291
Numerical Computing in General Relativity (Ray D'Inverno) ......Page 339
Quantum Gravity (Malcolm Perry) ......Page 385
Poster Abstracts ......Page 415
Participants' Addresses ......Page 421
Index ......Page 427

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