How Long to Read A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background

How Long Does it Take to Read A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 26 minutes to read A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Massimo Giovannini

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the last fifteen years, various areas of high energy physics, astrophysics and theoretical physics have converged on the study of cosmology so that any graduate student in these disciplines today needs a reasonably self-contained introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This book presents the essential theoretical tools necessary to acquire a modern working knowledge of CMB physics. The style of the book, falling somewhere between a monograph and a set of lecture notes, is pedagogical and the author uses the typical approach of theoretical physics to explain the main problems in detail, touching on the main assumptions and derivations of a fascinating subject. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Why CMB Physics? (297 KB). Contents: Why CMB Physics?; From CMB to the Standard Cosmological Model; Problems with the SCM; SCM and Beyond; Essentials of Inflationary Dynamics; Inhomogeneities in FRW Models; The First Lap in CMB Anisotropies; Improved Fluid Description of Pre-Decoupling Physics; Kinetic Hierarchies; Early Initial Conditions?; Surfing on the Gauges; Interacting Fluids; Spectator Fields; Appendices: The Concept of Distance in Cosmology; Kinetic Description of Hot Plasmas; Scalar Modes of the Geometry; Metric Fluctuations: Gauge Independent Treatment. Readership: PhD students and researchers in physics, astrophysics and astronomy.

How long is A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background?

A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Massimo Giovannini is 489 pages long, and a total of 126,651 words.

This makes it 165% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 32 minutes to read A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background aloud.

What Reading Level is A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background?

A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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