This book offers an alternative to other textbooks on the subject, providing a more specific discussion of numerous general relativistic effects for readers who... » 

This book offers an alternative to other textbooks on the subject, providing a more specific discussion of numerous general relativistic effects for readers who have knowledge of classical mechanics and electrodynamics, including special relativity. The coverage includes in particular gravitational lensing, signal retardation in the gravitational field of the Sun, the Reissner-Nordstrom solution, selected spin effects, the resonance transformation of an electromagnetic wave into a gravitational one, and the entropy and temperature of black holes. The book includes numerous problems at various levels of difficulty, making it ideal also for independent study by a broad readership of advanced students and researchers. «