Space-time, relativity, and cosmology
This textbook provides a historical introduction to modern relativistic cosmology for first year undergraduates and non-science majors undertaking a physics course. The topics are presented non-mathematically, with the emphasis on the underlying ideas. The tests and supporting experimental evidence are explained together with their predictions and their confirmation.
1 online resource (ix, 320 pages : illustrations)
9780521822800, 0521822807
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Acknowledgements; 1. The scientific method; 2. From antiquity to Aristotle; 3. From the Middle Ages to heliocentrism; 4. Galileo and Newton; 5. The clouds gather; 6. The Special Theory of Relativity; 7. The General Theory of Relativity; 8. The relativistic universe; 9. The lives of a star; Bibliography; Index.
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