ASTR 422, Cosmology

Fall 2007

Breaking news: the final exam will be Tuesday, December 18, from 8-10 AM, in our normal classroom CSS 2428

My lecture notes:

• Lecture 1: Intuition and Order of Magnitude Estimates
• Lecture 2: Naked-eye cosmology
• Lecture 3: Observational overview
• Lecture 4: Photons and other things
• Lecture 5: Newtonian gravity
• Lecture 6: The geometry of the universe
• Lecture 7: General relativity
• Lecture 8: Simple cosmological models
• Lecture 9: Distances in cosmology
• Lecture 10: Classical observational parameters
• Lecture 11: Modern observations
• Lecture 12: The cosmological constant
• Lecture 13: Gravitational lensing
• Lecture 14: The age of the universe
• Lecture 15: Measuring the age of the universe
• Lecture 16: Dark matter evidence and candidates
• Lecture 17: Newtonian structure formation
• Lecture 18: Structure in the expanding universe
• Lecture 19: Black holes and galaxies
• Lecture 20: The cosmic microwave background
• Lecture 21: Cosmic concordance
• Lecture 22: The thermal history of the universe
• Lecture 23: Neutrinos
• Lecture 24: Theory of big bang nucleosynthesis
• Lecture 25: Measurements of light elements
• Lecture 26: Cosmological inflation
• Lecture 27: Frontiers in cosmology

Problem sets:

• Problem set 1, due September 14
• Problem set 2, due September 28
• Problem set 3, due October 12
• Problem set 4, due November 2
• Problem set 5, due November 16

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