Physical Cosmology

✍ Scribed by P.J.E. Peebles

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist

Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. Phillip James Edwin Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing field.

Originally published in 1972.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Contents
I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950
a) The Expansion of the Universe
b) Nature of the Lemaitre Model
c) Interconnections - Galaxy Counts, the Time Scale, and the Mean Mass Density
d) The Steady State Cosmology
e) Is the Universe Expanding?
II. Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe
a) Clusters and Superclusters
b) Galaxy Counts
c) Hubble's Law
d) The Radiation Background
e) Summary
III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale
a) Hubble's Constant
b) Stellar Evolution Ages
c) Age of the Elements
d) Summary
IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe
a) The Mean Mass Density Due to Galaxies
b) The Luminosity Density and the Light of the Night Sky
c) M/L and the Stability Problem
d) Intergalactic Matter
e) Relativistic Matter
f) Summary
V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis
a) Concept, Prediction and Discovery
b) Test of the Fireball Hypothesis
c) Local Source Model
d) Applications of the Primeval Fireball
e) Is This the Primeval Fireball?
VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models
a) Derivation of the Lemaître Model
b) Properties of the Lemaître Model
c) Test of the Lemaître Model - Angular Size
d) Redshift-Magnitude Test
e) Hubble's Test
f) Numerical Results for the Lemaître Model
g) Conclusions
VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios
a) Interaction of Matter and the Primeval Fireball
b) Dynamic History of Matter in the Big Bang Model
c) Thermal History - Perturbation of the Fireball Spectrum
VIII. Primeval Helium
a) Helium Production in the Naive Big Bang
b) Avoiding Helium Production
c) Comparison with the Observed Helium Abundances
d) Discussion
Appendix
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