Peebles Physical Cosmology

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6877-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1790, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy LibraryPrinceton Series in Physics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Peebles, P. J. E.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Introduction, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xiii
I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950, pg. 1
II. The Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe, pg. 31
III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale, pg. 43
IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe, pg. 56
V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis, pg. 121
VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models, pg. 159
VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios, pg. 190
VIII. Primeval Helium, pg. 240
Appendix. Notation, Conventions and Units, pg. 278

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cosmology's Century, Principles of Physical Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics (all Princeton). He is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University.