Cosmology lecture

How do you understand cosmology?
Cosmology studies how the history of the universe led to the stars, galaxies, and other features we can observe today.
Cosmology is the study of the origin, development, structure, history, and future of the entire universe..
What does cosmology teach?
Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that involves the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to today and on into the future.
According to NASA, the definition of cosmology is "the scientific study of the large scale properties of the universe as a whole.".

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This is a course on cosmology, aimed at final year undergraduate students. It assumes a background in neither general relativity nor statistical mechanics. The

Content

1. 1. The Expanding Universe: PDF The cosmological principle: homogeneit… 2

Problem Sheets

1. Problem Sheet 1: PDF The Expanding Universe 2

Cosmology on The Web

1. Cosmologyby Andrew Jaffe 2. Astrophysical Cosmologyby J.A

Is the cosmological constant present in the open universe?

83 together with 18 low-redshift SN Ia data from the Calan/Tololo Supernova Survey, Perlmutter et al

(1998) showed that the cosmological constant is present at the 99 % confidence level

They also found that the open universe without the cosmological constant does not fit the data well

From Eq (3 8 4) the apparent luminosity

What is a cosmology course?

This is a course on cosmology, aimed at final year undergraduate students

It assumes a background in neither general relativity nor statistical mechanics

The full lecture notes come in around 170 pages

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The Expanding Universe: PDF The cosmological principle: homogeneity and isotropy