Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation and Conventions
- Part I 100 Years of Cosmology
- Part II Newtonian Cosmology
- Part III Relativistic Cosmology
- 10 Minkowski Space
- 11 The Energy Momentum Tensor
- 12 General Relativity
- 13 Space-Time Geometry and Calculus
- 14 The Einstein Field Equations
- 15 Solutions of the Einstein Equations
- 16 The Robertson–Walker Solution
- 17 Congruences, Curvature and Raychaudhuri
- 18 Observing and Measuring the Universe
- Part IV The Physics of Matter and Radiation
- Part V Precision Tools for Precision Cosmology
- Appendix A SI, CGS and Planck Units
- Appendix B Magnitudes and Distances
- Appendix C Representing Vectors and Tensors
- Appendix D The Electromagnetic Field
- Appendix E Statistical Distributions
- Appendix F Functions on a Sphere
- Appendix G Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
11 - The Energy Momentum Tensor
from Part III - Relativistic Cosmology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation and Conventions
- Part I 100 Years of Cosmology
- Part II Newtonian Cosmology
- Part III Relativistic Cosmology
- 10 Minkowski Space
- 11 The Energy Momentum Tensor
- 12 General Relativity
- 13 Space-Time Geometry and Calculus
- 14 The Einstein Field Equations
- 15 Solutions of the Einstein Equations
- 16 The Robertson–Walker Solution
- 17 Congruences, Curvature and Raychaudhuri
- 18 Observing and Measuring the Universe
- Part IV The Physics of Matter and Radiation
- Part V Precision Tools for Precision Cosmology
- Appendix A SI, CGS and Planck Units
- Appendix B Magnitudes and Distances
- Appendix C Representing Vectors and Tensors
- Appendix D The Electromagnetic Field
- Appendix E Statistical Distributions
- Appendix F Functions on a Sphere
- Appendix G Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
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- Precision CosmologyThe First Half Million Years, pp. 268 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017