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This is an introductory course on cosmology aimed at mathematics undergraduates at the University of Cambridge You will need to be comfortable with the basics of Special Relativity, but no prior knowledge of either General Relativity or Statistical Mechanics is assumed In particular, the minimal amount of statistical mechanics will
cosmology course at Ohio State have assisted in the development of the second edition, by Þeld-testing the end-of-chapter problems, proposing new problems, and acting as all-around critics of the manuscript
The Field Theory in Cosmology course will cover three related topics: quantum eld theory and in ation, statistical eld theory and large scale structures, classical eld theory and the cosmic microwave background These notes cover the rst part Notes for the second part will be distributed by T Baldauf Notes for the third part will be
Cambridge, Baumann’s notes are used for Part III while Tong’s are used for Part II • Subir Sarkar’sAstroparticle Physics lecture notes A broad, up-to-date overview of many current observational issues in astrophysics and cosmology • Peter Graham’s Physics 362 course There are no public lecture notes, but some of the wisdom
Cambridge Part III Maths Michaelmas 2015 Cosmology based on a course given by written up by James Fergusson and David Marsh Josh Kirklin Please send errors and
is the expansion rate today, one of the most important quantities in cosmology Today, then, we can rewrite this equation as r_(t0) = H0r(t0) : (2 9) These are all relative distances (recall the ijindices we’ve got rid of), but by convention we can take one of the points to be the location of the earth from which we observe, and