Where can I find examples for solving equations of motion in Relativity?

[jixe]

Hi,

I am a new GR student and struggling a bit, to be honest. Usually in this situation I saturate myself with working through examples and eventually the penny drops, but I have not been able to find a text or any lecture notes etc. that provides examples of things like solving geodesic equations of motion given a metric ( they don't all seem responsive to the Lagrangian approach) or rewriting metrics or equations of motion in a different coordinate system etc.etc.
Can anyone help by suggesting a text?

Thanks

 

[robphy]

You could try

Lightman et al. http://books.google.com/books?id=YtxGYnnP1PEC
Lawden http://books.google.com/books?id=MSBB_ENAhT4C
Landau & Lifshi[/color]tz http://books.google.com/books?id=QIxD3Z82AagC
Lipschutz (Schaums) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007IA2JE/?tag=pfamazon01-20

The questions you pose sound more like problems in "differential geometry (possibly motivated by physics)" rather than problems in "physics".

 

[jixe]

Thanks robphy. I'll have a look at those.