Screen LibraryPrinciples of physical cosmology /
"During the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space have added to our knowledge of what the universe is like now and what it was like in the past, going back to the hot big bang. In this overview of today's physi...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | [1993] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton series in physics
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"During the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space have added to our knowledge of what the universe is like now and what it was like in the past, going back to the hot big bang. In this overview of today's physical cosmology, P.J.E. Peebles shows how observation has combined with theoretical elements to establish the subject as a mature science, while he also discusses the most notable recent attempts to understand the origin and structure of the universe. A successor to Peebles's classic volume Physical Cosmology |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 718 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [685]-709) and index. |
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9780691019338 (paperback) : 0691019339 (paperback) 9780691074283 0691074283 |
| Index Number: | QB981 |
| CLC: | P159 |
| Call Number: | P159/P373-2 |
| Contents: | I. The Development of Physical Cosmology. 1. The Standard Cosmological Model. 2. Mach's Principle and the Cosmological Principle. 3. The Realm of the Nebulae. 4. Einstein's World Model. 5. The Expanding Universe. 6. The Thermal Cosmic Background Radiation. 7. Alternative Cosmologies -- II. General Relativity and Cosmology. 8. General Covariance. 9. Motions of Free Test Particles. 10. Field Equations. 11. Wall, String, and Spherical Solutions. 12. Robertson-Walker Geometry. 13. Neoclassical Cosmological Tests. 14. Cosmology in an Inhomogeneous Universe -- III. Topics in Modern Cosmology. 15. |