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In Chap. 1 we learned that Newtonian gravitation can be considered as a geometry of space–time. In addition we learned the fundamentals of the corresponding mathematical apparatus, differential geometry. In this chapter we want to apply those methods to relativistic particle dynamics. In contrast to the non-relativistic case, this will lead to a new theory, the so-called general relativity, which will modify the theory of special relativity as well as the theory of Newtonian gravitation. This means that general relativity predicts new physical phenomena.
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Hájíček, P. (2008). Relativistic Particle Dynamics in Gravitational Fields. In: An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78659-7_2
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