Physical Cosmology
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2015
300 pages
978-1-4008-6877-3 (ISBN)
Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. Phillip James Edwin Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing field.
Originally published in 1972.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. Phillip James Edwin Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing field.
Originally published in 1972.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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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.
Content
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
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
