TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawley,John Frederick
AU  - Holcomb,Katherine A.
TI  - Foundations of modern cosmology
SN  - 019853096X
U1  - 523.1 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
N1  - Previous ed.: 1998; Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-541) and index; Part 1 : History : 1. In the beginning - 2. Cosmology becomes a science - 3. Newton's machine -- Part II : Background: 4. Lighting the worlds - 5. The lives of the stars -- Part III : Relativity: 6. Infinite space and absolute time - 7. The special theory of relativity - 8. The general theory of relativity - 9. Black holes -- Part IV : The Big Bang - 10. The expanding universe - 11. Modeling the universe - 12. The early universe - 13. Testing the models - 14. A message from the Big Bang -- Part V : The continuing quest - 15. Dark matter and large-scale structure - 16. The inflationary universe - 17. The edge of time - Appendix A : Scientific notation - Appendix B : Units - Appendix C : Physical and astronmical constants -  Glossary - Bibliography - Index
ER  -