THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE

Course description and syllabus

Lecture notes:

Lecture 1 - Course Introduction (ppt file)

Lecture 2 - Early Cosmologies and the Beginnings of Modern Astronomy (ppt file)

Lecture 3 - Newton's laws of motion and gravity (ppt file)

Lecture 4 - More about Newtonian gravity (ppt file)

Lecture 5 - Cracks in Newton's theory (ppt file)

Lecture 6 - The extragalactic universe and distance measurement (ppt file)

Lecture 7 - The discovery of the expanding universe (ppt file)

Lecture 8 - Special Relativity I (Time dilation and length contraction) (ppt file)

Lecture 9 - Special Relativity II (Simultaneity and causality) (ppt file)

Lecture 10 - Special Relativity III (Mass and energy) (ppt file)

Lecture 11 - General Relativity I (Strong equivalence principle and bending of light) (ppt file)

Lecture 12 - General Relativity II (Curved Space and Time) (ppt file)

Lecture 13 - General Relativity III (Black Holes) (ppt file)

Lecture 14 - Cosmological models I (Cosmological Principles and FRW models) (ppt file)

Lecture 15 - Cosmological Models II (Friedman equation and the critical density) (ppt file)

Lecture 16 - The Cosmic Microwave Background (ppt file)

Lecture 17 - Primordial nucleosynthesis (ppt file)

Lecture 18 - Weighing the Universe and the need for dark matter (ppt file)

Lecture 19 - Formation of structure in the Universe (ppt file)

Lecture 20 - The cosmic concordance (ppt file)

Lecture 21 - The early universe (ppt file))

Lecture 22 - Problems with the cosmological model (ppt file)

Lecture 24 - Mechanisms of inflation (ppt file)

Homeworks and extra credit assignments:

Homework 1

Supplementary material



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