Introduction to Cosmology
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Beschreibung
The Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction toCosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmologyat an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles andthe history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student onto curved spacetimes, general relativity, black holes, cosmologicalmodels, particles and symmetries, and phase transitions.
Extensively revised, this latest edition includes broaderand updated coverage of distance measures, gravitational lensingand waves, dark energy and quintessence, the thermal history of theUniverse, inflation, large scale structure formation, and the'cosmological coincidence'problem.
* Illustrated throughout and comprehensively referenced withproblems at the end of each chapter.
* Includes more material on observational astrophysics andexpanded sections on astrophysical phenomena.
* Latest observational results from the WMAP satellite and the 2degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey.
Autor*in
Matts Roos
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