Fundamentals of Cosmology

Thisisthesecondeditionofabookonthephenomenological foundations ofmodern cosmology. The first edition was surprisingly well timed. In the preceding 3 years, advances in astronomy had laid the foundations of the dark-energy/dark-matter c- mological model. In 1998, observations of type Ia supernova by the Supernova C- mology Project and High Z team suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. In 2000, Boomerang and Maxima observed clearly the first acoustic peak in the anisotr...