Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Introduction to Cosmology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fully updated edition of the successful introductory graduate textbook on modern cosmology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780521793766
• ISBN-10: 0521793769
• Artikelnr.: 22003833

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Sir Fred Hoyle
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
1. The large-scale structure of the universe
2. The general theory of relativity
3. From relativity to cosmology
4. The Friedman models
5. Relics of the Big Bang
6. The very early universe
7. The formation of large scale structure of the universe
8. Alternative cosmologies
9. Cosmologies with creation of matter
10. Observational tests of cosmological significance
11. Observations of distant parts of the universe
12. A critical overview of cosmology
Table of constants
Glossary.