Cosmology MSc course
Contents:
Preface
Introduction to Cosmology
Cosmological principle
Friedmann Robertson Walker models
The early Universe
The inhomogeneous Universe
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Contents:
Preface
Contact hours:
Tutorials/Assignments
Texts of interest
Lecture notes:
Evaluation
Tutors
Purpose of the lecture notes
Introduction to Cosmology
Early attempts at Cosmology
Cosmological observations
Cosmological principle
Homogeneity and isotropy
The metric of a Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe
Friedmann Robertson Walker metric
Friedmann Robertson Walker models
Redshifts in an expanding Universe
Expansion of the Universe (Hubble-Lemaitre’s law)
Distances in the Universe
Dynamics of the Friedmann Robertson Walker metric
Horizons in the Universe
The early Universe
Limiting cases for thermodynamic quantities
Total effective degrees of freedom
Particle freeze out
Temperature of a decoupled relativistic species
Cosmic Neutrino background
Nucleosynthesis
Cosmic microwave background
The inhomogeneous Universe
Dark matter: the driver for structure formation
The origin of fluctuations
Spherical collapse of a top hat perturbation
Formation and statistics of dark matter halos
Indices and tables
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Index
Module Index
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