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100			_aRoss, Matts _9898108
245		0	_aIntroduction to cosmology
250			_a3rd
260			_aChichester, _c2003 _bJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd.:
300			_axiv, 279p. _b: ill.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references; Index 271-279p.
520			_aThe Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles and the history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student on to curved spacetimes, general relativity, black holes, cosmological models, particles and symmetries, and phase transitions. Extensively revised, this latest edition includes broader and updated coverage of distance measures, gravitational lensing and waves, dark energy and quintessence, the thermal history of the Universe, inflation, large scale structure formation, and the 'cosmological coincidence'problem.* Illustrated throughout and comprehensively referenced with problems at the end of each chapter.* Includes more material on observational astrophysics and expanded sections on astrophysical phenomena.* Latest observational results from the WMAP satellite and the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey.
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