Introduction to Black Holes, (Paperback)

The following topics are presented in this book:
basics of black holes: gravitational collapse, event horizon, geodesics
Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman metrics
spherically symmetric, rotating and electrically charged black holes
Carter-Penrose diagrams, naked singularities and Kruskal coordinates
mechanics of black holes
thermodynamics of black holes and Hawking radiation
quantum black holes