Difference between revisions of "Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology"
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Elements of general relativity. Physics of pulsars, cosmic rays, black holes. The cosmological distance scale, elementary cosmological models, properties of galaxies and quasars. The mass density and age of the universe. Evidence for dark matter and dark energy and concepts of the early universe and of galaxy formation. Reflections on astrophysics as a probe of the extrema of physics. | Elements of general relativity. Physics of pulsars, cosmic rays, black holes. The cosmological distance scale, elementary cosmological models, properties of galaxies and quasars. The mass density and age of the universe. Evidence for dark matter and dark energy and concepts of the early universe and of galaxy formation. Reflections on astrophysics as a probe of the extrema of physics. | ||
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* Main Text: Liddle, [http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~zarkom/Book_Astro__Liddle_Introduction_to_Modern_Cosmology.pdf '''An Introduction to Modern Cosmology'''] | * Main Text: Liddle, [http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~zarkom/Book_Astro__Liddle_Introduction_to_Modern_Cosmology.pdf '''An Introduction to Modern Cosmology'''] | ||
Revision as of 13:53, 17 January 2016
Elements of general relativity. Physics of pulsars, cosmic rays, black holes. The cosmological distance scale, elementary cosmological models, properties of galaxies and quasars. The mass density and age of the universe. Evidence for dark matter and dark energy and concepts of the early universe and of galaxy formation. Reflections on astrophysics as a probe of the extrema of physics.
Logistics
- Syllabus
- Class Repository: http://github.com/AaronParsons/astro161
- Main Text: Liddle, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology
Topics by Date
The Smooth Universe
(Tu, Jan. 19) The Cosmological Principle; Hubble parameter H; scale factor a [Ch 1,2]
- intro to our universe
- class mechanics
- syllabus
- references
- Liddle
- Astrobaki
- tools for figuring stuff out
- theoretical derivation
- order-of-magnitude estimation
- physical intuition (hands-on modeling, analogies)
- numerical simulation
- programming
- Activities
- collaborative map of our universe
- astrobaki
