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THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE
Course description and syllabus Lecture notes:
- Lecture 1 - Course Introduction
- Lecture 2 - Early Cosmologies and the Beginnings of Modern Astronomy
- Lecture 3 - Newton's laws and reference frames
- Lecture 4 - Newtonian gravity and the weak equivalence principle
- Lecture 5 - Absolute time, and the speed of light problem
- Lecture 6 - The extragalactic universe and distance measurement
- Lecture 7 - Special Relativity I (Time dilation)
- Lecture 8 - Special Relativity II (Simultaneity and Causality)
- Lecture 9 - Special Relativity III (Mass and Energy)
- Lecture 10 - General Relativity I (Strong Equivalence Principle)
- Lecture 11 - General Relativity II (Curved space-time)
- Lecture 12 - General Relativity III (Consequences of General Relativity)
- Lecture 13 - Review
- Lecture 14 - Mid-Term examination
- Lecture 15 - General Relativity IV (Black Holes)
- Lecture 16 - Discovery of the expanding universe
- Lecture 17 - Cosmological Models I
- Lecture 18 - Cosmological Models II
- Lecture 19 - Non-Standard Cosmological Models
- Lecture 20 - The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Lecture 21 - Primordial Nucleosynthesis
- Lecture 22 - Weighing the Universe, and Non-Baryonic Dark Matter
- Lecture 23 - The Formation of Structure
- Lecture 24 - Our Universe: the Cosmic Concordance
- Lecture 25 - The Early Universe
- Lecture 26 - Problems with the standard model
- Lecture 27 - Inflation
- Lecture 28 - Various Inflation models, and the anthropic principle
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