Publisher's Synopsis
Employing only calculus-based college physics this text develops heuristically the exact Einstein equations for simple yet important physical situations such as the space-time near a star, and exotic cases such as black holes and wormholes, as well as the basic equations of cosmology, and then leads the reader through a complete solution of these equations. This opens the text up to a very wide market, including the many science majors in universities and perhaps the entire post graduate scientific community, or at least those among them who would achieve satisfaction at being able to derive (albeit heuristically) and solve the Einstein equations.
