Cosmology for physicists / by David Lyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyth, D. H. (David Hilary), author.

Contributor:

CRC Press.

Series:

Series in astronomy and astrophysics.

Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2016].

Summary:

Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very latest developments in the observational science of cosmology. The book is separated into three parts; part I covers particle physics and general relativity, part II explores an account of the known history of the universe, and part III studies inflation. Full treatment of the origin of structure, scalar fields, the cosmic microwave background and the early universe are provided.

Contents:

part SECTION I: Physics

chapter 1 Particle physics

chapter 2 Curved spacetime

chapter 3 General Relativity

part SECTION II: The Big Bang

chapter 4 The present Universe

chapter 5 A first look at the history

chapter 6 Energy density of the Universe

chapter 7 Thermal equilibrium

chapter 8 Friedmann equation

chapter 9 The geometry of the Universe

chapter 10 Newtonian perturbations

chapter 11 Relativistic perturbations

chapter 12 Scalar perturbations

chapter 13 Baryon acoustic oscillation

chapter 14 CMB anisotropy

chapter 15 Galaxy formation

part SECTION III: Inflation

chapter 16 Scalar fields: Classical theory

chapter 17 Quantum theory of a free field

chapter 18 Inflation

chapter 19 Perturbations from inflation

chapter 20 Prehistory of the Big Bang.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781498755351

1498755356

9781315368016

1315368013

9781498755337

149875533X

OCLC:

962412106