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An edition of Elementary cosmology (2015)

Elementary cosmology

from Aristotle's universe to the big bang and beyond

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Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is traced from the early Greek philosophers to the most modern 21st century view. After a brief introduction to the concept of the scientific method, the first part of the book describes the way in which detailed observations of the Universe, first with the naked eye and later with increasingly complex modern instruments, ultimately led to the development of the "Big Bang" theory. The second part of the book traces the evolution of the Big Bang including the very recent observation that the expansion of the Universe is itself accelerating with time.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
1. The scientific method
1.1. Introduction to the scientific method
1.2. Some mathematics.
2. Early astronomy
3. Nebulae.
4. Cosmic distances
4.1. The cosmic distance ladder
4.2. Spiral nebulae : are they extragalactic?
4.3. The chemical composition of stars.
5. Space-time
5.1. The speed of light
5.2. The special theory of relativity
5.3. The general theory of relativity
5.4. Universal expansion.
6. The Big Bang
6.1. The structure and history of the Universe
6.2. The geometry of space-time
6.3. The father of the Big Bang
6.4. The creation of the element.
7. Cosmic microwave background radiation
7.1. The 'smoking gun' of the Big Bang
7.2. Decoupling
7.3. How bright is the CMB?
7.4. 'Matter dominated' versus 'radiation dominated' Universes
7.5. How uniform is the CMB?
8. Dark matter
8.1. Dark matter defined
8.2. Non-baryonic dark matter.
9. The standard model of cosmology
9.1. Nucleosynthesis
9.2. The birth and death of stars
9.3. The size of the Universe.
10. The very early Big Bang
10.1. The four forces of nature
10.2. The quantum nature of forces
10.3. The unification of forces
10.4. The quark model
10.5. The leptons
10.6. The gluons
10.7. The standard model of high-energy physics
10.8. The history of the Universe : the early frames
10.9. Why matter rather than antimatter?
11. Inflation
11.1. The horizon problem
11.2. The flatness problem
11.3. The smoothness problem
11.4. The magnetic monopole problem
11.5. Inflation
11.6. How inflation solves the Big Bang problems.
12. Dark energy
12.1. The curvature of space-time
12.2. The accelerating universal expansion
12.3. Dark energy and the CMB
12.4. Is there a signature of inflation in the CMB?
13. Higher dimensions
13.1. Field theories
13.2. Kaluza-Klein theory
13.3. Compactification
13.4. QED
13.5. Quantization of the weak and strong forces
13.6. Early attempts at a quantum theory of gravity.
14. String theory
14.1. Particles and 'string'
14.2. M-theory
14.3. The multiverse.
15. Black holes and wormholes
15.1. The life of the Sun
15.2. The life of massive stars
15.3. Neutron stars
15.4. Black holes
15.5. Some properties of black holes
15.6. The thermodynamics of black holes
15.7. Hawking radiation
15.8. The singularity at the center of a black hole.
16. Reading list
17. Links to astronomy websites.

Edition Notes

"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

James Kolata is Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B.S. from Marquette University and his M.S. and PhD from Michigan State University. Before coming to Notre Dame, he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at the University of Pittsburgh. This book is from his elective course at Notre Dame entitled "Elementary Cosmology."

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San Rafael [California]
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IOP concise physics, IOP concise physics
Other Titles
From Aristotle's universe to the big bang and beyond

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Dewey Decimal Class
523.1
Library of Congress
QB981 .K654 2015eb

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1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings))

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OL35354716M
ISBN 10
1681741008, 1681742284, 1681740362
ISBN 13
9781681741000, 9781681742281, 9781681740362
OCLC/WorldCat
931791435

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OL26200941W

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