Michael Rowan-Robinson

Cosmology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 159mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198527466
• ISBN-10: 0198527462
• Artikelnr.: 21632456

Autorenporträt

Michael Rowan-Robinson is Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College, London, UK. He is one of Britain's foremost astronomers.

Inhaltsangabe

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