Edward Harrison (Amherst University of Massachusetts)

Cosmology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Professor Harrison comprehensively surveys man's current understanding of the universe and its history. Tracing the rise of the scientific method, this book provides an elementary understanding of the physical universe of modern times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1256g
• ISBN-13: 9780521661485
• ISBN-10: 052166148X
• Artikelnr.: 21660502

Inhaltsangabe

Prefaces
Introduction
Part I: 1. What is cosmology?
2. Early scientific cosmology
3. Cartesian and Newtonian world systems
4. Cosmology after Newton and before Einstein
5. Stars
6. Galaxies
7. Location and the cosmic center
8. Containment and the cosmic edge
9. Space and time
Part II: 10. Curved space
11. Special relativity
12. General relativity
13. Black holes
14. Expansion of the universe
15. Cosmic redshifts
16. Newtonian cosmology
17. Cosmic box
18. Many universes
19. Observational cosmology
Part III: 20. The early universe
21. Horizons in the universe
22. Inflation
23. The cosmic numbers
24. Darkness at night
25. Creation of the universe
26. Life in the universe
Index.