This is a revised and updated new edition of a classic introductory text on cosmology for undergraduates, also accessible to anyone with a secondary school science background. New results from the WMAP mission are included as well as results from Hubble Key Project and High Redshift Supernovae Teams. The physical basis for cosmology is emphasized and there are many new exercises.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1.: The visible universe
- 2.: Our Galaxy and other galaxies
- 3.: The empirical basis for cosmological theories
- 4.: The big-bang models
- 5.: Early stages of the big bang
- 6.: From fireball to the present
- 7.: Observational cosmology
- 8.: Other cosmological theories
- Epilogue: twenty controversies in cosmology today
- Answers to problems
- Further reading
- Glossary
- Physical constants and conversion of factors
- Index
