Exploring Black Holes, Second EditionEdwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler, and Edmund Bertschinger |
ALSO AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD: Spacetime Physics, Second Edition The classic introduction to special relativity, revised and re-imagined. |
The first edition of Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity, authored by Oersted Medal winner Edwin Taylor and foremost relativist John Archibald Wheeler, offered a concise, directed examination of general relativity and black holes. Its goal was to provide tools that motivate students to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved spacetime near Earth and black holes. To that end, the book used calculus and algebra, rather than tensors, to make general relativity accessible to second- and third-year students. In this second edition -- labeled EBH2e -- coauthor Edmund Bertschinger joins Edwin F. Taylor to revise and expand the first edition. The text uses the properties of non-spinning and spinning black holes to introduce Albert Einstein's theory of curved spacetime and applies the resulting general relativity to the Universe around us. There is no published hard copy textbook of EBH2e. Instead, you may freely download the online version through the links below for personal and class use. For full details, download the README file below. | "Everything important is, "The second edition of Exploring Black Holes is a remarkable achievement…there is really nothing else like it. Professors and students who would like a first look, or perhaps a different look, at the wonders of general relativity would do well to spend time with this wonderful gift." |
http://www.eftaylor.com/exploringblackholes |
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| | AAFrontMatter170421v6.pdf | 181.3 KB | 09-05-17 | Front Matter | |
| | Ch04GlobalPositioningSystem160401v1.pdf | 326.1 KB | 10-05-17 | Chapter 4: The Global Positioning System (GPS) | |
| | Ch13GravitationalMirages160510v1.pdf | 941.3 KB | 10-05-17 | Chapter 13: Gravitational Mirages | |
| | Ch15Cosmology170510v1.pdf | 1.9 MB | 10-05-17 | Chapter 15: Cosmology | |
| | YInsideBackCover170421v4.pdf | 142.7 KB | 10-05-17 | Inside the Back Cover | |
| | Ch03Curving170511v1.pdf | 1.3 MB | 11-05-17 | Chapter 3: Curving | |
| | VAppendixAWheelersRules170511v1.pdf | 332.3 KB | 11-05-17 | Appendix A: Wheeler's Rules of Writing | |
| | AContents170511v1.pdf | 46.4 KB | 11-05-17 | Table of Contents | |
| | Ch14ExpandUniverse170331v1.pdf | 592.7 KB | 12-05-17 | Chapter 14: Expanding Universe | |
| | ZBackCoverEBH2e170517v1.pdf | 43.3 KB | 17-05-17 | Back Cover | |
| | Ch20OrbitsOfLightAroundSpinningBH170906v1.pdf | 394.1 KB | 06-09-17 | Chapter 20: Orbits of Light around the Spinning Black Hole | |
| | WAppendGlossaryF171006v3.pdf | 92.3 KB | 06-10-17 | Appendix B: Glossary | |
| | Ch16GravWaves171018v1.pdf | 494.4 KB | 18-10-17 | Chapter 16: Gravitational Waves | |
| | Ch18CircleOrbitsSpin170905v3.pdf | 2.2 MB | 18-10-17 | Chapter 18: Circular Orbits around the Spinning Black Hole | |
| | AAAFrontCover171026.pdf | 583.3 KB | 26-10-17 | Front Cover | |
| | Ch21TravelThroughTheSpinningBH170831v1.pdf | 2.6 MB | 29-11-17 | Chapter 21: Leaving Our Universe | |
| | Ch19OrbitingSpin180113v1.pdf | 1.7 MB | 13-01-18 | Chapter 19: Orbiting the Spinning Black Hole | |
| | Ch02BridgeSRtoGR170511v1.pdf | 742.6 KB | 16-01-18 | Chapter 2: The Bridge: SR to GR | |
| | XAppendixCAcknowledge180303v1.pdf | 66.1 KB | 03-03-18 | Appendix C: Acknowledgments | |
| | AAAAREADME180423v1.pdf | 147.2 KB | 23-04-18 | READ ME FIRST! | |
| | Ch12DivingPanoramas190403v1.pdf | 1.2 MB | 08-04-19 | Chapter 12: Diving Panoramas | |
| | Ch17SpinBH200224v1.pdf | 944.4 KB | 25-02-20 | Chapter 17: Spinning Black Hole | |
| | Ch05GlobalLocalMetrics200330v1.pdf | 518.1 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 5: Global and Local Metrics | |
| | Ch01Speeding200330v1.pdf | 604.4 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 1: Speeding | |
| | Ch06Diving200330v1.pdf | 528.1 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 6: Diving | |
| | Ch07InsideTheBlackHole200331v1.pdf | 948.4 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 7: Inside the Black Hole | |
| | Ch09Orbiting200331v1.pdf | 1.5 MB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 9: Orbiting | |
| | Ch10AdvanceOfMercurysPerihelion200331v1.pdf | 420.6 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 10: Advance of Mercury's Perihelion | |
| | Ch08CircularOrbits200331v1.pdf | 725.3 KB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 8: Circular Orbits | |
| | Ch11OrbitsOfLight200331v1.pdf | 1.3 MB | 07-04-20 | Chapter 11: Orbits of Light | |
| | ZZErrata.pdf | 133.9 KB | 16-02-21 | Errata (updates and corrections) |