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Series in astronomy and astrophysics
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Series in astronomy and astrophysics.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; SECTION I: Physics; CHAPTER 1: Particle physics; 1.1 SPECIAL RELATIVITY; 1.2 STANDARD MODEL; 1.3 COLLISION AND DECAY PROCESSES; 1.4 CONSERVED QUANTITIES; 1.5 NATURAL UNITS; 1.6 NEUTRINO MASSES; 1.7 NEUTRINOS AT REST; CHAPTER 2: Curved spacetime; 2.1 SPACETIME METRIC; 2.2 FOUR-VECTORS AND TENSORS; 2.3 COVARIANT DERIVATIVE AND D'ALEMBERTIAN; 2.4 EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; 2.5 CURVATURE TENSOR; 2.6 GEODESICS; CHAPTER 3: General Relativity; 3.1 ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; 3.2 EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION. |
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3.3 SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC AND BLACK HOLES3.4 WEAK GRAVITY; 3.5 NEWTONIAN GRAVITY; 3.6 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; SECTION II: The Big Bang; CHAPTER 4: The present Universe; 4.1 STARS AND GALAXIES; 4.2 PARTICLES IN THE UNIVERSE; CHAPTER 5: A first look at the history; 5.1 THE BIG BANG AND INFLATION; 5.2 EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; 5.3 COLLISION AND DECAY PROCESSES; 5.4 THE FIRST MINUTE; 5.5 BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS (BBN); 5.6 LAST SCATTERING AND GALAXY FORMATION; CHAPTER 6: Energy density of the Universe; 6.1 THE COSMOLOGICAL REDSHIFT; 6.2 MATTER AND RADIATION; 6.3 THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT. |
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CHAPTER 7: Thermal equilibrium7.1 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; 7.2 GENERALISED BLACKBODY DISTRIBUTIONS; 7.3 MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; 7.4 INITIAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; 7.5 ELECTRON-POSITRON ANNIHILATION; 7.6 EPOCH OF LAST SCATTERING; 7.7 COSMIC NEUTRINO BACKGROUND; CHAPTER 8: Friedmann equation; 8.1 FRIEDMANN EQUATION; 8.2 EVOLUTION OF THE SCALE FACTOR; 8.3 DISTANCE TO THE HORIZON; CHAPTER 9: The geometry of the Universe; 9.1 SPATIAL METRIC; 9.2 HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC METRIC; 9.3 CLOSED GEOMETRY; 9.4 OPEN GEOMETRY; CHAPTER 10: Newtonian perturbations; 10.1 UNPERTURBED UNIVERSE. |
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10.2 TOTAL DENSITY PERTURBATION10.3 BARYONS AND CDM; CHAPTER 11: Relativistic perturbations; 11.1 DEFINING THE PERTURBATIONS; 11.2 STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; 11.3 SMOOTHING; 11.4 PRIMORDIAL CURVATURE PERTURBATION; CHAPTER 12: Scalar perturbations; 12.1 TENSOR, VECTOR AND SCALAR MODES; 12.2 SCALAR PERTURBATIONS; 12.3 EVOLUTION OF THE SCALAR PERTURBATIONS; 12.4 INITIAL CONDITION; CHAPTER 13: Baryon acoustic oscillation; 13.1 GROWTH, OSCILLATION AND DECAY; 13.2 BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; CHAPTER 14: CMB anisotropy; 14.1 CMB TEMPERATURE; 14.2 CMB MULTIPOLES; 14.3 POLARIZATION. |
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14.4 WHAT THE SPECTRA TELL USCHAPTER 15: Galaxy formation; 15.1 MATTER TRANSFER FUNCTION; 15.2 FORMATION OF CDM HALOS; 15.3 FORMATION OF GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS; SECTION III: Inflation; CHAPTER 16: Scalar fields: Classical theory; 16.1 ACTION PRINCIPLE; 16.2 SCALAR FIELD; 16.3 ACTION IN CURVED SPACETIME; CHAPTER 17: Quantum theory of a free field; 17.1 HARMONIC OSCILLATOR; 17.2 FREE SCALAR FIELD; 17.3 PARTICLES; 17.4 VACUUM STATE; 17.5 PLANCK SCALE; CHAPTER 18: Inflation; 18.1 TWO STAGES OF INFLATION; 18.2 AMOUNT OF OBSERVABLE INFLATION; 18.3 SLOW-ROLL INFLATION; 18.4 DARK ENERGY. |
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Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version : 9781498755313 |
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149875533X (electronic book) |
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9781498755337 (electronic book) |
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9781498755351 (ePub ebook) |
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9781498755344 (VitalBook ebook) |
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1498755356 (ePub ebook) |
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1498755348 (VitalBook ebook) |
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1498755348 |
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1498755356 |
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1498755313 |
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9781498755313 |
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