Physical Foundations of Cosmology - Caltech Astronomy.
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| Physical Foundations of Cosmology - Caltech Astronomy |
This textbook is designed both for serious students of physics and astrophysics
and for those with a particular interest in learning about theoretical cosmology.
There are already many books that survey current observations and describe theoretical
results; my goal is to complement the existing literature and to show where
the theoretical results come from. Cosmology uses methods from nearly all fields
of theoretical physics, among which are General Relativity, thermodynamics and
statistical physics, nuclear physics, atomic physics, kinetic theory, particle physics
and field theory.