{"id":12373,"date":"2015-02-11T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12373"},"modified":"2018-04-18T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:16:53","slug":"problem-book-in-relativity-and-gravitation-free-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/problem-book-in-relativity-and-gravitation-free-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation: Free Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were ever to publish a second edition of Spacetime and Geometry<\/em><\/a> — unlikely, but check back in another ten years — one thing I would like to do would be to increase the number of problems at the end of each chapter. I like the problems that are there, but they certainly could be greater in number. And there is no solutions manual, to the chagrin of numerous professors over the last decade.<\/p>\n

What I usually do, when people ask for solutions and\/or more problems, is suggest that they dig up a copy of the Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation<\/em><\/a> by Lightman, Press, Price, and Teukolsky. It’s a wonderful resource, with twenty chapters chock-full of problems, all with complete solutions in the back. A great thing to have for self-study. The book is a bit venerable, dating from 1975, and the typesetting isn’t the most modern; but the basics of GR haven’t changed in that time, and the notation and level are a perfect fit for my book.<\/p>\n

And now everyone can have it for free! Where by “now” I mean “for the last five years,” although somehow I never heard of this. Princeton University Press, the publisher, gave permission to put the book online<\/a>, for which students everywhere should be grateful.<\/p>\n

[Edit: apparently as of Sept 2017, PUP changed their mind<\/a>, so the book is no longer available for free. You can still buy it from Amazon.]<\/p>\n

\"Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re learning (or teaching) general relativity, you owe yourself to check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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