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Product Description Key Benefit: This unique book offers a concise, introductory overview of general relativity and black holes, motivating readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations. To this end, the book uses calculus and algebra, rather than tensors, to make general relativity accessible. Five chapters introduce basic concepts, and seven projects require the reader to apply these basic concepts to real astronomical applications. Key Topics: Speeding (Review of Special Relativity), Curving (Spacetime Near a Non-Rotating Black Hole), Plunging (Diving Toward a Black Hole), Project B: Inside The Black Hole, Orbiting (Zooming Around a Black Hole) Market: Intended for this interested in gaining a basic knowledge of Black Holes. About the Author Edwin F. Taylor is a Senior Research Scientist Emeritus in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated from Oberlin College and earned a PhD from Harvard University. He has received the Oersted Medal, the highest award of the American Association of Physics Teachers "for notable contributions to the teaching of physics," and was an editor of the American Journal of Physics for six years. Dr. Taylor has written interactive software for physics education, as well as numerous articles, reports, and reviews for both technical and trade publications. His book-authoring career began with Introductory Mechanics (Wiley, 1963); since then, he has written An Introduction to Quantum Physics with A. P. French (Norton, 1978), Spacetime Physics (Freeman, 1992) with John Archibald Wheeler, and the first edition of Exploring Black Holes (Addison-Wesley, 2000), also with Wheeler. John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1933, and went on to become a professor of physics at Princeton University from 1938-1976, then a professor of physics at the Univ