Einstein的广义相对论是现代物理的基石。它包括了大量讲述时空的前沿话题，黑洞、重力波以及宇宙学。随着广义相对论越来越成为同时代物理和天文学的中心，其在本科教育中的地位也显得尤为重要。这本全新的教材很适合本科生作为了解该课程的基础理论。物理优先、数学理论尽可能少、大量的应用实例，作者为物理学家和对该学科感兴趣的读者自然顺畅的讲述了这门学科。读者对象:《引力》适用于物理专业的本科生，研究生以及对该学科感兴趣的广大读者。目次：（第一部分）牛顿物理和狭义相对论中的时空：引力物理；几何作为物理；牛顿物理中的空间；时间和引力；狭义相对论原理；狭义相对论力学； （第二部分）广义相对论的弯曲时空：引力作为几何；弯曲时空的描述；测地线；球形星体外的几何；广义相对论的太阳系检验；实用相对论引力；引力坍缩和黑洞；天体物理学黑洞；微小转动；旋转黑洞；引力波；宇宙观察；宇宙学模型；什么是宇宙以及为什么；（第三部分）Einstein方程：数学部分；曲率和Einstein方程；曲率源；引力波发射；相对论星体。

\"Preface PART I SPACE AND TIME IN NEWTONIAN　PHYSICS AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY 1 Gravitational Physics 2 Geometry as Physics 2.1 Gravity Is Geometry 2.2 Experiments in Geometry 2.3 Different Geometries 2.4 Specifying Geometry 2.5 Coordinates and Line Element 2.6 Coordinates and Invariance 3 Space, Time, and Gravity in　Newtonian Physics 3.1 Inertial Frames 3.2 The Principle of Relativity 3.3 Newtonian Gravity 3.4 Gravitational and Inertial Mass 3.5 Variational Principle for Newtonian Mechanics 4 Principles of Special Relativity 4.1 The Addition of Velocities and the Michelson-Morley Experiment 4.2 Einstein\'s Resolution and Its Consequences 4.3 Spacetime 4.4 Time Dilation and the Twin Paradox 4.5 Lorentz Boosts 4.6 Units 5 Special Relativistic Mechanics 5.1 Four-Vectors 5.2 Special Relativistic Kinematics 5.3 Special Relativistic Dynamics 5.4 Variational Principle for Free Particle Motion 5.5 Light Rays 5.6 Observers and Observations PART II THE CURVED SPACETIMES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY 6 Gravity as Geometry 6.1 Testing the Equality of Gravitational and Inertial Mass 6.2 The Equivalence Principle 6.3 Clocks in a Gravitational Field 6.4 The Global Positioning System 6.5 Spacetime Is Curved 6.6 Newtonian Gravity in Spacetime Terms 7 The Description of Curved Spacetime 7.1 Coordinates 7.2 Metric 7.3 The Summation Convention 7.4 Local Inertial Frames 7.5 Light Cones and World Lines 7.6 Length, Area, Volume, and Four-Volume for Diagon Metrics 7.7 Embedding Diagrams and Wormholes 7.8 Vectors in Curved Spacetime 7.9 Three-Dimensional Surfaces in Four-Dimensional　Spacetime 8 Geodesics 8.1 The Geodesic Equation 8.2 Solving the Geodesic Equation---Symmetries and　Conservation Laws 8.3 Null Geodesics 8.4 Local Inertial Frames and Freely Falling Frames 9 The Geometry Outside a Spherical Star 9.1 Schwarzschild Geometry 9.2 The Gra\"