Introduction to cosmology / Matts Roos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roos, Matts, author.

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology--History.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Summary:

The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles and the early history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student on to curved spacetimes, special and general relativity, gravitational lensing, the thermal history of the Universe, and cosmological models, including extended gravity models, black holes and Hawking's recent conjectures on the not-so-black holes. Introduction to Cosmology, Fourth Edition includes: New theoretical approaches and in-depth material on observ

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.

Thermal Death.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 10, 2015).

ISBN:

1-118-92329-4

1-118-92328-6

OCLC:

904249236