Cosmology

Michael Rowan-Robinson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

1996 | 3rd Revised edition
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-851884-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This up-to-date introduction to modern cosmology is sufficiently systematic for use as a course text by physics or astronomy students and sufficiently self-contained for anyone with school science to understand.

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Written by a world expert in observational cosmology, this is the only introductory text on cosmology aimed at an undergraduate level. This highly popular book has been revised and updated and is now in its third edition. The author shows how different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma-rays, have contributed to our picture of the universe. This new edition includes rival theories of the universe as well as the tests which they can be subjected and recent results of such tests. Another special feature of this edition is the updated list of twenty current controversies in cosmology today.;This book is intended for undergraduate courses in cosmology in astronomy or physics departments. Interested non-specialists

Inhalt

1. The visible universe; 2. Our Galaxy and other galaxies; 3. The empirical basis for cosmological theories; 4. The big-bang models; 5. Early stages of the big bang; 6. From fireball to the present; 7. Observational cosmology; 8. Other cosmological theories; Epilogue: twenty controversies in cosmology today; Answers to problems; Further reading; Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.1996
• Zusatzinfo: frontispiece, halftones, line figures, tables
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-19-851884-6 / 0198518846
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-851884-6 / 9780198518846
• Zustand: Neuware