Principles of Physical Cosmology / / P. J. E. Peebles.
The classic introduction to physical cosmology from Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. PeeblesPrinciples of Physical Cosmology is the essential introduction to this critical area of modern physics, written by a leading pioneer who has shaped the course of the field for decades. P. J. E. Peebles...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series in Physics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (774 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 2019 Nobel Lecture: How Physical Cosmology Grew
- Preface
- I. The Development of Physical Cosmology
- 1. The Standard Cosmological Model
- 2. Mach's Principle and the Cosmological Principle
- 3. The Realm of the Nebulae
- 4. Einstein's World Model
- 5. The Expanding Universe
- 6. The Thermal Cosmic Background Radiation
- 7. Alternative Cosmologies
- II. General Relativity and Cosmology
- 8. General Covariance
- 9. Motions of Free Test Particles
- 10. Field Equations
- 11. Wall, String, and Spherical Solutions
- 12. Robertson-Walker Geometry
- 13. Neoclassical Cosmological Tests
- 14. Cosmology in an Inhomogeneous Universe
- III. Topics in Modern Cosmology
- 15. Challenges for the Standard Model
- 16. Walls, Strings, Monopoles, and Textures
- 17. Inflation
- 18. Dark Matter
- 19. Measures of the Galaxy Distribution
- 20. Dynamical Mass Measures
- 21. The Large-Scale Mass Distribution
- 22. Gravitational Evolution
- 23. Young Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
- 24. Diffuse Matter and the Cosmic Radiation Backgrounds
- 25. Galaxy Formation
- 26. Lessons and Issues
- References
- Index