Cosmology
Cosmology
Out of Print
This book delivers a quantitative account of cosmology, designed for a nonspecialist audience. The author outlines basic principles using simple math and physics, but still provides rigorous models of the universe. He offers an ideal introduction to the key ideas in cosmology, without going into technical details. The approach used is based on the fundamental ideas of general relativity, such as the spacetime interval, comoving coordinates, and spacetime curvature. The book provides an up-to-date and thoughtful discussion of the Big Bang and the crucial questions of structure and galaxy formation. The author also briefly discusses questions of method and philosophical approaches in cosmology. Advanced undergraduates in either physics or mathematics will benefit greatly from this book, either as a course text or as a supplementary guide to cosmology courses.
- One of the few texts on cosmology that can be used for undergraduate teaching
- Problems included for students to practise what is learnt
- Short, concise and clear explanations
Reviews & endorsements
'… an extremely readable, and useful, introduction to the subject for an astrophysics undergraduate. Read this book in order to get used to the basic ideas, the terminology, the importance of the observational data, some of the more important equations. It will provide a very good basis from which the student may climb further.' Ron Hilditch The Observatory
Product details
September 1995Hardback
9780521474412
144 pages
235 × 157 × 14 mm
0.331kg
Unavailable - out of print March 2004
Table of Contents
- 1. Discovering the cosmos
- 2. The relativistic Universe
- 3. General relativity and the dynamics of the Universe
- 4. The primordial Universe
- 5. Galaxy formation
- Conclusion.
