Cosmology /
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| Author / Creator: | Weinberg, Steven, 1933- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xvii, 593 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6826357 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Expansion of the Universe
- 2. The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
- 3. The Early Universe
- 4. Inflation
- 5. General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
- 6. Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
- 7. Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky
- 8. The Growth of Structure
- 9. Gravitational Lensing
- 10. Fluctuations from Inflation
- Appendices
- A. Some Useful Numbers
- B. Review of General Relativity
- C. Energy Transfer Between Radiation and Electrons
- D. The Ergodic Theorem
- E. Gaussian Distributions
- F. Newtonian Cosmology
- G. Photon Polarization
- H. The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation
- Notation
- Glossary of Symbols
- Assorted Problems
