Introduction to Cosmology

Author/creator Roos, Matts Author
Format Electronic
Edition3rd ed.,Revised
Publication InfoWiley [Imprint] Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Description294 p. ill 25.050 x 018.750 cm.
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Summary Annotation The Third Edition&#160;of the hugely successful <i>Introduction to Cosmology</i> provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles and the history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student on to curved spacetimes, general relativity, black holes, cosmological models, particles and symmetries, and phase transitions.<p>Extensively revised, this latest edition&#160;includes broader and updated coverage of distance measures, gravitational lensing and waves, dark energy and quintessence, the thermal history of the Universe, inflation, large scale structure formation, and the &#8216;cosmological coincidence&#8217;problem.</p><ul><li><div>Illustrated throughout and comprehensively referenced with problems at the end of each chapter.</div></li><li><div>Includes more material on observational astrophysics and expanded sections on astrophysical phenomena.</div></li><li><div>Latest observational results from the WMAP satellite and the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey.</div></li></ul>
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003020688
ISBN9780470849101
ISBN047084910X (Trade Paper) Active Record
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