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 & 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 & their observational consequences These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks & polarization the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles & their detection via photometric galaxy surveys redshift distortions cluster abundances & weak lensing The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB the EB decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves & the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology & learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe ...

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play All 22 episodes from the fourth season of 2012 Emmy Award winning American mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling cheerfully dysfunctional multi-cultural family in Los Angeles Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O& Neill) has recently remarried bringing hot young Colombian-born wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) & her teenage son Manny (Rico Rodriguez) into the fold His daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) & her husband Phil (Ty Burrell) have three kids while his son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) & his gay partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) & a Vietnamese baby Lilly In season 4 we pick up right where we left off with Gloria’s announcement to the audience that the is pregnant As you can imagine this causes big reactions to the news throughout the family & so the hilarious comedy we have come to love ensues ...