An Introduction to Modern Cosmology - Brossura

Liddle, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0471987581 ISBN 13: 9780471987581

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

This new textbook provides a readable and accessible introduction to the subject for those students taking a first course in cosmology. An Introduction to Modern Cosmology introduces models of the expanding universe and explores all the successes of the hot big bang, including the cosmic microwave background and nucleosynthesis. A brief discussion of the inflationary cosmology is also included. No prior knowledge of astronomy is assumed and the book's general approach tends to avoid relativity, deriving the crucial results using newtonian theory. This allows a discussion of all the evidence in favour of the hot big bang in a treatment which is based in physics rather than mathematics.

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Recensione

"...one of the clearest introductions to cosmology on the market..." (Contemporary Physics, Vol.43, No. 3 2002)

L'autore

Andrew Liddle is a lecturer in astrophysics at Imperial College. London. Previously, he was at the Astronomy Centre, The University of Sussex, where he lectured to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. This book has evolved from his undergraduate cosmology course. His research interests currently include the origin and evolution of structure in the universe and the relation between astronomical observations and the physics of the very early universe.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471987581
• ISBN 13: 9780471987581
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile