- •Contents
- •Preface to the second edition
- •Preface to the first edition
- •1 Special relativity
- •1.2 Definition of an inertial observer in SR
- •1.4 Spacetime diagrams
- •1.6 Invariance of the interval
- •1.8 Particularly important results
- •Time dilation
- •Lorentz contraction
- •Conventions
- •Failure of relativity?
- •1.9 The Lorentz transformation
- •1.11 Paradoxes and physical intuition
- •The problem
- •Brief solution
- •2 Vector analysis in special relativity
- •Transformation of basis vectors
- •Inverse transformations
- •2.3 The four-velocity
- •2.4 The four-momentum
- •Conservation of four-momentum
- •Scalar product of two vectors
- •Four-velocity and acceleration as derivatives
- •Energy and momentum
- •2.7 Photons
- •No four-velocity
- •Four-momentum
- •Zero rest-mass particles
- •3 Tensor analysis in special relativity
- •Components of a tensor
- •General properties
- •Notation for derivatives
- •Components
- •Symmetries
- •Circular reasoning?
- •Mixed components of metric
- •Metric and nonmetric vector algebras
- •3.10 Exercises
- •4 Perfect fluids in special relativity
- •The number density n
- •The flux across a surface
- •Number density as a timelike flux
- •The flux across the surface
- •4.4 Dust again: the stress–energy tensor
- •Energy density
- •4.5 General fluids
- •Definition of macroscopic quantities
- •First law of thermodynamics
- •The general stress–energy tensor
- •The spatial components of T, T ij
- •Conservation of energy–momentum
- •Conservation of particles
- •No heat conduction
- •No viscosity
- •Form of T
- •The conservation laws
- •4.8 Gauss’ law
- •4.10 Exercises
- •5 Preface to curvature
- •The gravitational redshift experiment
- •Nonexistence of a Lorentz frame at rest on Earth
- •The principle of equivalence
- •The redshift experiment again
- •Local inertial frames
- •Tidal forces
- •The role of curvature
- •Metric tensor
- •5.3 Tensor calculus in polar coordinates
- •Derivatives of basis vectors
- •Derivatives of general vectors
- •The covariant derivative
- •Divergence and Laplacian
- •5.4 Christoffel symbols and the metric
- •Calculating the Christoffel symbols from the metric
- •5.5 Noncoordinate bases
- •Polar coordinate basis
- •Polar unit basis
- •General remarks on noncoordinate bases
- •Noncoordinate bases in this book
- •5.8 Exercises
- •6 Curved manifolds
- •Differential structure
- •Proof of the local-flatness theorem
- •Geodesics
- •6.5 The curvature tensor
- •Geodesic deviation
- •The Ricci tensor
- •The Einstein tensor
- •6.7 Curvature in perspective
- •7 Physics in a curved spacetime
- •7.2 Physics in slightly curved spacetimes
- •7.3 Curved intuition
- •7.6 Exercises
- •8 The Einstein field equations
- •Geometrized units
- •8.2 Einstein’s equations
- •8.3 Einstein’s equations for weak gravitational fields
- •Nearly Lorentz coordinate systems
- •Gauge transformations
- •Riemann tensor
- •Weak-field Einstein equations
- •Newtonian limit
- •The far field of stationary relativistic sources
- •Definition of the mass of a relativistic body
- •8.5 Further reading
- •9 Gravitational radiation
- •The effect of waves on free particles
- •Measuring the stretching of space
- •Polarization of gravitational waves
- •An exact plane wave
- •9.2 The detection of gravitational waves
- •General considerations
- •Measuring distances with light
- •Beam detectors
- •Interferometer observations
- •9.3 The generation of gravitational waves
- •Simple estimates
- •Slow motion wave generation
- •Exact solution of the wave equation
- •Preview
- •Energy lost by a radiating system
- •Overview
- •Binary systems
- •Spinning neutron stars
- •9.6 Further reading
- •10 Spherical solutions for stars
- •The metric
- •Physical interpretation of metric terms
- •The Einstein tensor
- •Equation of state
- •Equations of motion
- •Einstein equations
- •Schwarzschild metric
- •Generality of the metric
- •10.5 The interior structure of the star
- •The structure of Newtonian stars
- •Buchdahl’s interior solution
- •10.7 Realistic stars and gravitational collapse
- •Buchdahl’s theorem
- •Quantum mechanical pressure
- •White dwarfs
- •Neutron stars
- •10.9 Exercises
- •11 Schwarzschild geometry and black holes
- •Black holes in Newtonian gravity
- •Conserved quantities
- •Perihelion shift
- •Post-Newtonian gravity
- •Gravitational deflection of light
- •Gravitational lensing
- •Coordinate singularities
- •Inside r = 2M
- •Coordinate systems
- •Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates
- •Formation of black holes in general
- •General properties of black holes
- •Kerr black hole
- •Dragging of inertial frames
- •Ergoregion
- •The Kerr horizon
- •Equatorial photon motion in the Kerr metric
- •The Penrose process
- •Supermassive black holes
- •Dynamical black holes
- •11.6 Further reading
- •12 Cosmology
- •The universe in the large
- •The cosmological arena
- •12.2 Cosmological kinematics: observing the expanding universe
- •Homogeneity and isotropy of the universe
- •Models of the universe: the cosmological principle
- •Cosmological metrics
- •Cosmological redshift as a distance measure
- •The universe is accelerating!
- •12.3 Cosmological dynamics: understanding the expanding universe
- •Critical density and the parameters of our universe
- •12.4 Physical cosmology: the evolution of the universe we observe
- •Dark matter and galaxy formation: the universe after decoupling
- •The early universe: fundamental physics meets cosmology
- •12.5 Further reading
- •Appendix A Summary of linear algebra
- •Vector space
- •References
- •Index
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We complete the uniform-density case by solving for from Eq. (10.27). Here we know the value of at R, since it is implied by continuity of g00:
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Note that and m are monotonically increasing functions of r, while p decreases monotonically.
Buchdahl’s interior solution
Buchdahl (1981) found a solution for the equation of state
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where p is an arbitrary constant. While this equation has no particular physical basis, it does have two nice properties: (i) it can be made causal everywhere in the star by demanding that the local sound speed (dp/dρ)1/2 be less than 1; and (ii) for small p it reduces to
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which, in the Newtonian theory of stellar structure, is called an n = 1 polytrope. The n = 1 polytrope is one of the few exactly solvable Newtonian systems (see Exer. 14, § 10.9), so Buchdahl’s solution may be regarded as its relativistic generalization. The causality requirement demands
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Like most exact solutions2 this one is difficult to deduce from the standard form of the equations. In this case, we require a different radial coordinate r . This is defined, in terms of the usual r, implicitly by Eq. (10.59) below, which involves a second arbitrary constant β, and the function3
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Rather than demonstrate how to obtain the solution (see Buchdahl 1981), we shall content ourselves simply to write it down. In terms of the metric functions defined in Eq. (10.7), we have, for Ar π ,
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where u = u(r ). The surface p = 0 is where u = 0, i.e. at r = π/A ≡ R . At this place, we have
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R ≡ r(R ) = π (1 − β)(1 − 2β)−1A−1. |
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Therefore, β is the value of M/R on the surface, which in the light of Eq. (10.13) is related to the surface redshift of the star by
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Clearly, the nonrelativistic limit of this sequence of models is the limit β → 0. The mass of the star is given by
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2An exact solution is one which can be written in terms of simple functions of the coordinates, such as polynomials and trigonometric functions. Finding such solutions is an art that requires the successful combination of useful coordinates, simple geometry, good intuition, and in most cases luck. See Stefani et al. (2003) for a review of the subject.
3Buchdahl uses different notation for his parameters.