A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity Student Edition

One cannot master GR without working many problems and fully understanding the solutions. This book is most welcome.

I got the textbook (Schutz) for which this is a companion because reviews seemed to suggest that it was the easiest introduction to GR. It has problems at the end of each chapter, which is great, but they aren't easy and there aren't answers so you really have no way of knowing if you solved them correctly. This book (Scott) is extremely helpful in this regard, providing answers to SOME of the questions. At times both books fall short in their explanations, making what seem to me to be huge mathematical leaps. That said, they are, I have found, far superior in this regard to the competition. Most books at this level cut much more of the detail in the name of elegance.Scott unfortunately skips the solutions to what are apparently critical problems, later referencing these very derivations in solving other problems. But if you get Schutz and are serious about working through it, you will need this book (Scott). It is essential.

This is an excellent book written by someone who has an international reputation in the topic of relativity, BUT do not be confused about what it is. It is essentially a series of questions (and thankfully in most cases answers) for students who have read Schutz's textbook. So some basic knowledge of special and general relativity is probably essential. If you have that you can improve on your understanding. The comments on time dilation helped me, but if you are confused about gravitational red shift you may not get much relief.

Book was as described in ad and arrived within estimated time.

Nice deal

Splendid! A+

great

Very clearly written. Dr. Scott has worked very hard to prepare an excellent resource for self learners of general relativity.

Robert Scott's "Manual for a First Course in General Relativity" (referring to the textbook by Bernard Schutz) is a collection of solutions to many - not all - of the exercises in that textbook. It also has some additional exercises of it's own, and solutions in it. By providing these, it could indeed be called a manual. However, it does not contain any additional explanations, alternative approaches etc.The fact that not all of Schutz's problems are solved is worth one star less. The complete lack of anything else than problems and solutions in a book that is called a manual, is worth another half star less, resulting in 3.5 / 5.If you like working with the "First Course" by Schutz, Scott's "Manual" will probably be a good extension. Do not expect this manual to facilitate GR (as presented by Schutz) for you, which is tough, and there's hardly a way around it.

Lo mejor del libro es que, además de los ejercicios resueltos del Schutz, tiene ejercicios extra que el autor incluye y que ayudan mucho.

Me lo recomendó un profesor y el Schultz ha sido el libro con el que he aprendido relatividad general. Este tipo de manuales son de mucha ayuda para gente autodidacta.

Contains the most important solutions to the exercises in the book. Together with the book, it gives a good introduction to general relativity as well as some practise so calculate standard exercises as well as advanced problems.

当初，練習問題を解かないで読み進めていたのだが，6・7章あたりから練習問題を解きながら読み進めないと初学者にはきつい。そこで本書を購入して，1. Schutz著で、なかなかすんなり理解ができない部分に該当する練習問題が章末にあればいくつかピックアップ2. 本書の解答を読みながら必要があれば手を動かして計算3. Schutz著に戻るとして利用したおかげで，Schutz著の理解が格段に深くなった。・忙しくて練習問題を解く時間がない方・練習問題の解があっているか不安で確認したい方などに強くお勧めできる一冊といえる。ただ、すべての問題の答えが載っているのではないことに注意。中にはHintのみを提示している問題もあるが、その殆どの問題は比較的難易度が低い模様。実はWebにおいても・日本語の解答が乗っているページ・著者自身が書かれたもの(英語)も検索したら見つかるので、そちらも合わせてみていただきたい(検索したら簡単にみつかります)。因みに本書は英語で書かれているが、英語が得意でない方でも辞書片手に読み進めば十分に理解できる。さらに，本書特有の問題も各章で用意されているので余力のある方ならやってみる価値あり。