Cosmology

The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Structure

AvPeter Coles,Francesco Lucchin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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This is the 2nd edition of a highly successful title on this fascinating and complex subject. Concentrating primarily on the theory behind the origin and the evolution of the universe, and where appropriate relating it to observation, the new features of the this addition include: An overall introduction to the bookTwo new chapters: Gravitational Lensing and Gravitational WavesEach part has a collection of exercises with solutions to numerical parts at the end of the bookContains a table of physical constantsThe addition of a consolidated bibilography

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-05-30
Mått:174 x 247 x 31 mm
Vikt:1 021 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780471489092

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Mer om författaren

Peter Coles is a theoretical cosmologist at Cardiff University and Maynooth University. He was formerly the head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. Francesco Lucchin is the author of Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Structure, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface. Introduction. PART 1: COSMOLOGICAL MODELS. First Principles. The Friedmann Models. Alternative Cosmologies. Observational Properties of the Universe. PART 2: THE HOT BIG BANG MODEL. Thermal History of the Hot Big Bang Model. The Very Early Universe. Phase Transitions and Inflation. The Lepton Era. The Plasma Era. PART 3: THEORY OF STRUCTURE FORMATION. Introduction to Jeans Theory. Gravitational Instability of Baryonic Matter. Non-Baryonic Matter. Cosmological Perturbations. Non-Linear Evolution. Models of Structure Formation PART 4: OBSERVATIONAL TESTS. Statistics of Galaxy Clustering. The Cosmic Microwave Background. Peculiar Motions of Galaxies. Gravitational Lensing. The High-Redshift Universe. A Forward Look. Appendices References. Index.