Cosmology

著者

• Rowan-Robinson, Michael

書誌事項

Cosmology

Michael Rowan-Robinson

Clarendon Press, 1996

3rd ed

• : pbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780198518846

内容説明

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

目次

• 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

巻冊次

ISBN 9780198518853

内容説明

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

目次

• The visible universe
• our galaxy and other galaxies
• the empirical basis for cosmological theories
• the big-bang models
• early stages of the big-bang
• from fireball to the present
• observational cosmology
• other cosmological theories
• epilogue: 20 controversies in cosmology today
• answers to problems.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA28443216
• ISBN:
  • 0198518854
  • 0198518846
• LCCN: 96001769
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 170 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB981
  • DC20 : 523.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Cosmology