Download or read book Equations of Motion in General Relativity written by Hideki Asada and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the gravitational field of a system of stars and predicts their paths by providing the 'equations of motion' of each star. Extracting these equations from his field equations is a highly technical procedure described in this book. Observable quantities can then be calculated to test the theory.