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100 1 $aPeebles, P. J. E.$q(Phillip James Edwin)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046463
245 10 $aPrinciples of physical cosmology /$cP.J.E. Peebles.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $axviii, 718 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aPrinceton series in physics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [685]-709) and index.
505 2 $aI. 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, Monopolies, 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.
520 $aDuring the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space have added to our knowledge of what the universe is like now and what it was like in the past, going back to the hot big bang. In this overview of today's physical cosmology, P.J.E. Peebles shows how observation has combined with theoretical elements to establish the subject as a mature science, while he also discusses the most notable recent attempts to understand the origin and structure of the universe. A successor to Peebles's classic volume Physical Cosmology (Princeton, 1971), the book is a comprehensive overview addressed not only to students but also to scientists active in fields outside cosmology.
520 8 $aThe first part of the work presents the elements of physical cosmology, including the history of the discovery of the expanding universe. The second part, on the cosmological tests that measure the geometry of spacetime, discusses general relativity theory as the basis for the tests, and then surveys the broad variety of ways the tests can be applied with the new generations of telescopes and detectors. The third part deals with the origin of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe, and reviews ideas about how the evolution of the universe might be traced back to very early epochs when structure originated. Each chapter begins with an introduction that can be understood with no special knowledge beyond undergraduate physics, and then progresses to more specialized topics.
650 0 $aCosmology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033169
650 0 $aAstrophysics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009032
830 0 $aPrinceton series in physics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42032469
852 00 $bsci$hQB981$i.P424 1993
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