Lectures on Physical Cosmology

Author: Yu Yunqiang
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book is the first textbook in China designed for university students to study cosmology. It is a compilation based on the author's many years of teaching the course. The content is divided into five main parts: (1) Stars and Galaxies; (2) Foundations of Cosmology (basic facts of cosmology and the dynamics of cosmic expansion); (3) The Early Universe (overview of the early universe, photon background radiation, big bang nucleosynthesis); (4) Preliminary Particle Cosmology (asymmetry of matter and antimatter, inflation in the very early universe); (5) Structure Formation (the theoretical foundation of matter clustering, model studies of structure formation). This book can also be used as a textbook for graduate students.