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Principles of Physical Cosmology

✍ Scribed by P.J.E. Peebles

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Leaves
739
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This overview of contemporary physical cosmology explains how observation has combined with theoretical elements to establish the subject as a mature science. The author describes notable recent attempts to understand the origins and structure of the universe.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
I. The Development of Physical Cosmology
1. The Standard Cosmological Model
2. Mach's Principle and the Cosmological Principle
3. The Realm of the Nebulae
4. Einstein's World Model
5. The Expanding Universe
6. The Thermal Cosmic Background Radiation
7. Alternative Cosmologies
II. General Relativity and Cosmology
8. General Covariance
9. Motions of Free Test Particles
10. Field Equations
11. Wall, String, and Spherical Solutions
12. Robertson-Walker Geometry
13. Neoclassical Cosmological Tests
14. Cosmology in an Inhomogeneous Universe
III. Topics in Modern Cosmology
15. Challenges for the Standard Model
16. Walls, Strings, Monopoles, and Textures
17. Inflation
18. Dark Matter
19. Measures of the Galaxy Distribution
20. Dynamical Mass Measures
21. The Large-Scale Mass Distribution
22. Gravitational Evolution
23. Young Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
24. Diffuse Matter and the Cosmic Radiation Backgrounds
25. Galaxy Formation
26. Lessons and Issues
References
Index
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