1 Table of Contents: “...Evolution of the Universe -- Quantum Gravity and Fundamental Constants -- Physics and Metrology...”

2 “...The book is aimed at physics students and professional physicists who wish to understand the basics...”

3 Table of Contents: “...I. The Early Universe -- Early Cosmology and Fundamental Physics -- Advances in String Theory...”

4 Table of Contents: “... Inhomogeneous Universe -- Chaos in Cosmology -- II. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- The Physics of CMB...”

5 Table of Contents: “...1 Observations and Theory -- 2 Ejection from Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies -- 3 Quantum Mechanics...”

6 Table of Contents: “.... Plasma Waves -- 5. Kinetic Theory -- 6. Sun and Solar Wind: Plasmas in the Heliosphere -- 7. Energetic...”

7 Table of Contents: “.... Plasma Waves -- 5. Kinetic Theory -- 6. Diffusive Transport -- 7. Shock Waves -- 8. Sun and Solar Wind...”

8 Table of Contents: “... Magnetohydrodynamics -- 4 Plasma Waves -- 5 Kinetic Theory -- II Space Plasmas -- 6 Sun and Solar Wind: Plasmas...”

9 Table of Contents: “... Physics -- I. The Simple Physical Theory of Meteors -- 3. Fundamental Equations -- 4. Self-Similarity...”

10 Table of Contents: “... and vorticity -- 1.7. Kinetic theory -- Problems -- 2. The Gravitational Field of a Planet -- 2.1. Spherical...”

11 Table of Contents: “... -- 1.3. Some Astronomical Fundamentals -- II Instrumental Background -- 2.1. Fundamentals of Radio...”

12 Table of Contents: “.... Astrophysics Involved and Experimental Approach. 499 -- Origin and Physics of the Highest Energy Particles...”

13 Table of Contents: “... -- Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory --...”

14 Table of Contents: “...1. Scalar-Tensor Gravity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Brans-Dicke theory -- 3 Brans-Dicke cosmology...”

15 Table of Contents: “...A. Fundamentals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Refraction of radio waves in a plasma. Simplest case -- 3...”

16 Table of Contents: “.... Fundamental Equations -- Further Reading and References -- 2. Basic Concepts -- 2.1. Single Particle Orbit...”

17 Table of Contents: “... Polarization -- 4. Signal Processing and Receivers -- 5. Fundamentals of Antenna Theory -- 6. Filled Aperture...”

18 Table of Contents: “... and open issues -- Topology of the Universe: Theory and Observation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief History...”

19 Subjects: “...Statistics in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences...”

20 Table of Contents: “... fields -- 1.3 Why plasma physics -- 1.4 Aim of the course -- 2 Basic plasma properties -- 2.1 Elements...”