Gravitation and Spacetime

by Hans C. Ohanian, Remo Ruffini

A remarkable book has just been made even better. Now more than ever, Gravitation and Spacetime , Second Edition, by Hans C. Ohanian and new coauthor Remo Ruffini, deserves John Wheeler’s praise as "the best book on the market today of 500 pages or less on gravitation and general relativity." Gravitation and Spacetime has been thoroughly updated with the most exciting finds and hottest theoretical topics in general relativity and cosmology. Highlights of the revision include the rise and fall of the fifth force, principles and applications of gravitational lensing, COBE’s spectacular confirmation of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic thermal radiation, theories of dark matter and inflation, and the early universe as a testing ground for particle physicists’ unification theories, and much, much more.

The ideal choice for a graduate-level introduction to general relativity, Gravitation and Spacetime is also suitable for an advanced undergaduate course.

Genres: Physics, Textbooks

704 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1976

Reviews

[فرهاد ذکاوت · Rating 4 out of 5]

A phenomenological relativity book, in the level of first year of master degree, or last year of B.Sc in theoretical physics. broad examples and practical applications with actual experiments results. latest edition which I studied, has updates for new or near future tests or observatories.
It could be better, theoretically, but still good book. If I want to bring readers an example, its ancestors are, Gravitation by Wheeler, Thorne, Misner. But not Hawking-Penrose, large scales and R. Wald, G.R. these two books which second one is a new version of the first are pure theoretical and if someone looks for topology in older books these are the ones. Of course H-P book, is based on Gravitation which for the first time topology, practical general relativity and phenomenology tried to introduce a new face of difficult mathematical physics of GR.
In astrophysics we have B. Carroll (orange book) in the same level and method of teaching (Just as a comparison).

[Joseph Carrabis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gravitation and Spactime is a wonderful introduction, almost a "grammar" to Einsteinian concepts. If anything, I wish there was a bit more of a quantum (speculatory) crossover. I read two different editions of this book, neither recent, and each was quite good for their time.