PDF Modern General Relativity Black Holes Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Mike Guidry 9781107197893 Books

Product details

I have just started to read Guidry's textbook, having already
made serious attempts to read other recent textbooks
on general relativity such as those of Tai-Pei Cheng, Hartle,
Schutz, D'Inverno, Zee, and Carroll, for example.

So far I am impressed by the contents of Guidry's book, including
superb writing and a lack of typographical errors.

Some of its features include

1. A collection of 259 references in the back of the book.
2. Care about the the use of natural units.
3. A clear comment about the breakdown of the principle of global conservation
of energy in general relativity because of the difficult of accounting
for gravitational energy.
4. An up-to-date summary of the current standard model, including recent
calculations of the evolution of the universe (13.8 Gyr) using recent
benchmark parameters.
5. Two chapters devoted to gravitational waves.
6. Helpful footnotes.
7. Homework problems with partial solutions (PDF)
on the Cambridge Univ. Press website.

One problem for people like me with poor eyesight the font used in this book is
about 10 percent smaller than the 11-point type one sees in physics textbooks.

Guidry's book contains 598 pages, so this is only a first impression
but so far, so good.
I only wish when it comes equations, which show up very small here, someone could figure out how to make LaTex work!