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mike.james
May17-04, 07:36 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in\nGravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.\nMany thanks\nmikej\n\n\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in
Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.
Many thanks
mikej
tessel@tum.bot
May19-04, 08:24 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>On Tue, 18 May 2004, mike.james wrote:\n\n> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in\n> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.\n\nGosh, we hope not! (At some point, students attempting to turn themselves\ninto experts need to either know that they have gotten the right answer\nwithout crutches [e.g. checking their result by some independent method],\nor that they don\'t know how to solve the problem.)\n\nBut for the benefit of those autodidacts who are not attempting to become\nprofessional physicists, I mention two books with many excellent problems\nand at least partial solutions in the back:\n\nauthor = {Bernard F. Schutz},\ntitle = {A First Course in General Relativity},\npublisher = {Cambridge University Press},\nyear = 1985}\n\nauthor = {Alan P. Lightman and William H. Press and Richard H. Price and\nSaul A. Teukolsky},\ntitle = {Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation},\npublisher = {Princeton University Press},\nyear = 1975}\n\nAFAIK these are both available in relatively inexpensive paperback.\n\nIf you have questions about a -specific- problem in MTW, you can ask for\nhints here. Be sure to give a clear citation to a specific problem, and\nexplain that you are not asking anyone to do your homework.\n\n"T. Essel" (hiding somewhere in cyberspace)\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>On Tue, 18 May 2004, mike.james wrote:
> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in
> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.
Gosh, we hope not! (At some point, students attempting to turn themselves
into experts need to either know that they have gotten the right answer
without crutches [e.g. checking their result by some independent method],
or that they don't know how to solve the problem.)
But for the benefit of those autodidacts who are not attempting to become
professional physicists, I mention two books with many excellent problems
and at least partial solutions in the back:
author = {Bernard F. Schutz},
title = {A First Course in General Relativity},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
year = 1985}
author = {Alan P. Lightman and William H. Press and Richard H. Price and
Saul A. Teukolsky},
title = {Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation},
publisher = {Princeton University Press},
year = 1975}
AFAIK these are both available in relatively inexpensive paperback.
If you have questions about a -specific- problem in MTW, you can ask for
hints here. Be sure to give a clear citation to a specific problem, and
explain that you are not asking anyone to do your homework.
"T. Essel" (hiding somewhere in cyberspace)
tessel@tum.bot
May19-04, 04:45 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>On Tue, 18 May 2004, mike.james wrote:\n\n> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in\n> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.\n\nGosh, we hope not! (At some point, students attempting to turn themselves\ninto experts need to either know that they have gotten the right answer\nwithout crutches [e.g. checking their result by some independent method],\nor that they don\'t know how to solve the problem.)\n\nBut for the benefit of those autodidacts who are not attempting to become\nprofessional physicists, I mention two books with many excellent problems\nand at least partial solutions in the back:\n\nauthor = {Bernard F. Schutz},\ntitle = {A First Course in General Relativity},\npublisher = {Cambridge University Press},\nyear = 1985}\n\nauthor = {Alan P. Lightman and William H. Press and Richard H. Price and\nSaul A. Teukolsky},\ntitle = {Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation},\npublisher = {Princeton University Press},\nyear = 1975}\n\nAFAIK these are both available in relatively inexpensive paperback.\n\nIf you have questions about a -specific- problem in MTW, you can ask for\nhints here. Be sure to give a clear citation to a specific problem, and\nexplain that you are not asking anyone to do your homework.\n\n"T. Essel" (hiding somewhere in cyberspace)\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>On Tue, 18 May 2004, mike.james wrote:
> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in
> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.
Gosh, we hope not! (At some point, students attempting to turn themselves
into experts need to either know that they have gotten the right answer
without crutches [e.g. checking their result by some independent method],
or that they don't know how to solve the problem.)
But for the benefit of those autodidacts who are not attempting to become
professional physicists, I mention two books with many excellent problems
and at least partial solutions in the back:
author = {Bernard F. Schutz},
title = {A First Course in General Relativity},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
year = 1985}
author = {Alan P. Lightman and William H. Press and Richard H. Price and
Saul A. Teukolsky},
title = {Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation},
publisher = {Princeton University Press},
year = 1975}
AFAIK these are both available in relatively inexpensive paperback.
If you have questions about a -specific- problem in MTW, you can ask for
hints here. Be sure to give a clear citation to a specific problem, and
explain that you are not asking anyone to do your homework.
"T. Essel" (hiding somewhere in cyberspace)
David Park
May25-04, 01:30 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>MTW is good but difficult for beginners to learn from.\n\nI have been working with the Foster & Nightingale text, "A Short Course in\nGeneral Relativity". I find this book very good as an introduction.\n\nI have been working all the text material, examples and exercises (they do\nhave answers) using the Mathematica Tensorial package that can be obtained\nfrom my web site below. I\'m about 2/3rds through the book and have been able\nto do everything by calculation, including the derivations.\n\nI would be willing to share these notebooks with other people learning\ngeneral relativity, and who reasonably identify themselves.\n\nDavid Park\ndjmp@earthlink.net\nhttp://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/\n\n\n\n\n"mike.james" <mike.james@infomax.demon.co.uk> wrote in message\nnews:c8384v\\$q68\\$1\\$8302bc10@news.dem on.co.uk...\n> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in\n> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.\n> Many thanks\n> mikej\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>MTW is good but difficult for beginners to learn from.
I have been working with the Foster & Nightingale text, "A Short Course in
General Relativity". I find this book very good as an introduction.
I have been working all the text material, examples and exercises (they do
have answers) using the Mathematica Tensorial package that can be obtained
from my web site below. I'm about 2/3rds through the book and have been able
to do everything by calculation, including the derivations.
I would be willing to share these notebooks with other people learning
general relativity, and who reasonably identify themselves.
David Park
djmp@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
"mike.james" <mike.james@infomax.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c8384v$q68$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> Are there any worked answers - website or book - to the exercises in
> Gravitation Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler.
> Many thanks
> mikej
tessel@tum.bot
May26-04, 05:12 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>On Tue, 25 May 2004, David Park wrote:\n\n> I have been working all the text material, examples and exercises (they do\n> have answers) using the Mathematica Tensorial package that can be obtained\n> from my web site below. I\'m about 2/3rds through the book and have been able\n> to do everything by calculation, including the derivations.\n\nFor symbolic computation resources see also this webpage (now a bit\noutdated):\n\nhttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/software.html\n\nNote that Maple has a standard package called "tensor" with computational\nability very similar to the freeware package "GRTensorII", which you can\nobtain via the webpage just cited. This is convenient for the routine\nchecking of results (wise for serious computation!) using two\nindependently written symbolic tensor manipulation packages. The built-in\npackage also facilitates information passing to other Maple packages such\nas "diffalg".\n\n"T. Essel" <-- began with MTW! :-)\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>On Tue, 25 May 2004, David Park wrote:
> I have been working all the text material, examples and exercises (they do
> have answers) using the Mathematica Tensorial package that can be obtained
> from my web site below. I'm about 2/3rds through the book and have been able
> to do everything by calculation, including the derivations.
For symbolic computation resources see also this webpage (now a bit
outdated):
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/software.html
Note that Maple has a standard package called "tensor" with computational
ability very similar to the freeware package "GRTensorII", which you can
obtain via the webpage just cited. This is convenient for the routine
checking of results (wise for serious computation!) using two
independently written symbolic tensor manipulation packages. The built-in
package also facilitates information passing to other Maple packages such
as "diffalg".
"T. Essel" <-- began with MTW! :-)
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