Cosmology
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Cosmology
Clarendon Press, 1996
3rd ed
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780198518846
Description
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
Table of Contents
- 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
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ISBN 9780198518853
Description
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
Table of Contents
- 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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