Dodelson, Scott. <br/><br/>
Modern cosmology / 
Scott Dodelson. 
 - San Diego, California :  Academic Press,  2003. 
 - xiii, 440 pages. :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-434) and index. 
<br/><br/> Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780122191411 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cosmology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB981  / DOD