2. Edition - May 2002
57.90 Euro
2002. XX, 492 Pages, Hardcover
- Textbook -
ISBN-10: 0-471-48909-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-48909-2 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
This is the 2nd edition of a highly successful title, concentrating primarily on the theory behind the origin and the evolution of the universe, and where appropriate relating it to observation.
New to this edition:
* An overall introduction to the book
* Two new chapters: Gravitational Lensing and Gravitational Waves
* Each part has a collection of exercises with solutions to numerical parts at the end of the book
* Contains a table of physical constants
* The addition of a consolidated bibilography
This widely recognised text is suitable for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

From the contents
Preface.

Introduction.

PART 1: COSMOLOGICAL MODELS.

First Principles.

The Friedmann Models.

Alternative Cosmologies.

Observational Properties of the Universe.

PART 2: THE HOT BIG BANG MODEL.

Thermal History of the Hot Big Bang Model.

The Very Early Universe.

Phase Transitions and Inflation.

The Lepton Era.

The Plasma Era.

PART 3: THEORY OF STRUCTURE FORMATION.

Introduction to Jeans Theory.

Gravitational Instability of Baryonic Matter.

Non-Baryonic Matter.

Cosmological Perturbations.

Non-Linear Evolution.

Models of Structure Formation

PART 4: OBSERVATIONAL TESTS.

Statistics of Galaxy Clustering.

The Cosmic Microwave Background.

Peculiar Motions of Galaxies.

Gravitational Lensing.

The High-Redshift Universe.

A Forward Look.

Appendices

References.

Index.