ISBN 0-19-851885-6 (pbk), 0-19-851885-4 (hbk), 170 pages
Includes 78 black and white figures, and 18 problems with hints and answers.
This textbook has evolved through three editions from courses which
I have given at Queen Mary College and at Imperial College. It is intended as an
undergraduate textbook at a level suitable for a course given in the second or third
year of a degree course, and has been used as a course-book at many universities around
the world. Knowledge of General Relativity is not a prerequisite and the small amount
of GR needed to explain the cosmological models and derive their properties is explained
in simple terms. A feature of the book is the emphasis given to observational cosmology
and the Epilogue on twenty controversies in cosmology today.
Contents
The visible universe
Our Galaxy and other galaxies
The empirical basis for cosmological theories
The big bang models
Early stages of the big bang
From the fireball to the present
Observational cosmology
Other cosmological theories
Epilogue: Twenty controversies in cosmology today
Published by Oxford University Press
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Michael Rowan-Robinson
February 2002