Suggestions for a Physics Textbook on Special & General Relativity

[MatthewNITX]

Hey my fellow physics-students/physicists.
I'd like to ask if you guys could suggest me a textbook/s that sufficient for integrated course of "special" and "general relativity".
More precisely, That contain about:
Introduction about the birth of relativity and principle, and the transformation of Galilee.
the basics of the special relativity,
Lorentz transformations and boost groups.
The dynamics of relativity
The space-time theory.
Covariance of dynamics
The electromagnetic theory and it's link with relativity.
The covariance with electromagnetic theory.
The theory of relativity of fields (camps)
And The introductions of general relativity.

Thank you <3

 

[PhanthomJay]

Well, you will get responses from those much more gifted than I in this field, but I don’t see how you could start without first reading the book from the Master himself, Albert Einstein’s ‘Relativity; The Special and General Theories’.
And check out Robphy’s featured article at the top of this home page. And check out the Special and General Relativity sub-forum on this site, the responders are second to none and a textbook would be secondary to this forum.

 

[vanhees71]

My two favorites right now:

H. Stephani, Relativity, an introduction to special and general relativity, Cambridge University Press (2004)
W. Rindler, Relativity, special - general - cosmological, Oxford University Press (2006)

Then there are the classics

S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology, John Wiley (1972)
L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, The classical theory of fields, Butterworth-Heinemann (1996)

The latter is a textbook which gives a really modern introduction to classical electromagnetism (relativity first without hiding the beauty of this approach under a montain of unnecessary didactics as does Purcell in the Berkeley Physics Course vol. 2) + a straight-to-the point intro to GR with all the necessary tensor calculus needed (but not more ;-)).