Introduction to cosmology /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
©1997.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface to First Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to Fourth Edition; Chapter 1 From Newton to Hubble; 1.1 Historical Cosmology; Newton's Cosmology.; Rotating Galaxies.; Black Holes.; Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy.; The End of Newtonian Cosmology.; 1.2 Inertial Frames and the Cosmological Principle; 1.3 Olbers' Paradox; 1.4 Hubble's Law; The Expanding Universe.; Hubble Time and Radius.; The Cosmic Scale.; The Hubble Constant.; Statistics.; 1.5 The Age of the Universe; Cosmochronology by Radioactive Nuclei.
- Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs).1.6 Matter in the Universe; Baryonic Matter.; Supernovae and Neutron Stars.; Dark components.; 1.7 Expansion in a Newtonian World; Newtonian Mechanics.; Expansion.; Models of Cosmological Evolution.; Chapter 2 Special Relativity; 2.1 Lorentz Transformations; Lorentz Transformations.; Time Dilation.; Relativity and Gold.; Light Cone.; Redshift and Scale Factor.; 2.2 Metrics of Curved Space-time; Euclidean Space.; Minkowski Space-time.; Gaussian Curvature.; Comoving Coordinates.; The Robertson-Walker Metric.; 2.3 Relativistic Distance Measures; Proper Distance.
- Particle and Event Horizons. Redshift and Proper Distance.; Redshift and Luminosity Distance.; Parallax Distance.; Angular Size Distance.; Distance Ladder Continued.; 2.4 Tests of Special Relativity; Chapter 3 General Relativity; 3.1 The Principle of Equivalence; Falling Photons.; Superluminal Photons.; 3.2 The Principle of Covariance; Tensors.; General Covariance.; 3.3 The Einstein Equation; The Einstein-Hilbert Action.; Stress-Energy Tensor.; Energy of Gravity Waves.; 3.4 Weak Field Limit; Chapter 4 Tests of General Relativity; 4.1 The Classical Tests; Mercury's Perihelion Shift.
- Deflection of Star Light. Timekeeping in Gravitational Fields.; Radio Signal Delay.; 4.2 Binary Pulsars; 4.3 Gravitational Lensing; Weak Lensing.; Strong Lensing.; Surface Brightness and Microlensing.; Cosmic Shear.; Weak Lensing Surveys.; 4.4 Gravitational Waves; Tensor Field.; Sources of Gravitational Waves.; Gravitational Wave Detection.; Chapter 5 Cosmological Models; 5.1 Friedmann-Lemaitre Cosmologies; Friedmann's Equations.; General Solution.; Einstein Universe.; The Friedmann-Lemaitre Universe.; Energy-Momentum Conservation.; Entropy Conservation and the Equation of State.
- Early Time Dependence. Big Bang.; Late Einstein-de Sitter Evolution.; Evolution of a Closed Universe.; The Radius of the Universe.; Late Friedmann-Lemaitre Evolution.; 5.2 de Sitter Cosmology; 5.3 The Schwarzschild Model; The Schwarzschild Metric.; 5.4 Black Holes; Event Horizons.; Hawking Radiation.; Black Hole Creation.; Observations of Black Holes.; 5.5 Extended Gravity Models; Chapter 6 Thermal History of the Universe; 6.1 Planck Time; 6.2 The Primordial Hot Plasma; Particle Physics Symmetries.; Thermal Equilibrium.; Energy Density.; Relativistic versus Nonrelativistic Particles.