Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xx
5. Chapter One. Introduction 1
6. Chapter Two. Relativistic Kinematics 14
7. Chapter Four. Physical Cosmology 36
8. Chapter Five. Radiation Physics of Relativistic Flows 50
9. Chapter Six. Compton Scattering 70
10. Chapter Seven. Synchrotron Radiation 117
11. Chapter Eight. Binary Particle Collision Processes 160
12. Chapter Nine. Photohadronic Processes 187
13. Chapter Nine. Pair Production 227
14. Chapter Eleven. Blast-Wave Physics 258
15. Chapter Twelve. Introduction to Fermi Acceleration 314
16. Chapter Thirteen. First-Order Fermi Acceleration 327
17. Chapter Fourteen. Second-Order Fermi Acceleration 351
18. Chapter Fifteen. The Geometry of Spacetime 379
19. Chapter Sixteen. Black-Hole Electrodynamics 417
20. Chapter Seventeen. High-Energy Radiations from Black Holes 452
21. Appendix A. Essential Tensor Calculus 473
22. Appendix B. Mathematical Functions 488
23. Appendix C. Solutions of the Continuity Equation 492
24. Appendix D. Basics of Monte Carlo Calculations 497
25. Appendix E. Supplementary Information 499
26. Appendix F. Glossary and Acronym List 505
27. References 509
28. Index 531