Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series) by Douglas A. MacDonald | (PDF) Free Download

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This pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes emphasizes the “membrane paradigm”, which translates the mathematics and physics of black holes into a form accessible to readers with little knowledge of general relativity but a solid grounding in nonrelativistic physics. This is accomplished without resort to approximations or loss of content. Instead of treating a black hole’s “event horizon” as a globally defined null surface in four-dimensional space time, the paradigm views it as a two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space. Made of viscous fluid, electrically charged and conducting, with finite entropy and temperature but no power to conduct heat, this membrane is seen as having familiar properties that enable the reader to understand intuitively and compute quantitatively the behavior of black holes in complex astrophysical environments.

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⭐Little used, like a good library book.(Maybe little used because of the subject?)I like this vendor. I’ll use it again.

⭐The idea of a pedagogical introduction to the membrane paradigm is a good one. However, the authors’ treatment isfar from self-contained; I was disappointed. My particular interest was in the treatment of electrodynamics outside the black hole. Unfortunately, the key equations (Maxwell’s equations) were not derived but were referenced to another paper. I obtained the reference paper (with some difficulty) and found that again key results were simply stated based on an earlier reference. Now I have to put all this together, coping with the changes in notation and conventions. Not fun!

⭐Just what he wanted!

⭐This book presents a nice overview of the black hole membrane paradigm. As another reviewer mentioned, If you’re looking for full derivations of some of the equations presented (such as the ‘focusing’ equations), or a detailed discussion/derivation of gauge invariant variables you’ll need to go to the references cited. Nevertheless this book provides an admirable quasi qualitative review of the membrane paradigm, along with some interesting astrophysical applications of the formalism they develop.

⭐Parfaite introduction à la physique des trous noirs sans nécessité d’avoir un bagage important en relativité générale, mais des connaissances solides en électromagnétisme et thermodynamique. Livre d’autant plus d’actualité avec la mise en évidence expérimentale récente (septembre 2015) des ondes gravitationnelles par la collision de deux trous noirs:[…]Livre adapté pour étudiants en science à partir du 2ème cycle universitaire.

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