PHYS 787 :   COSMOLOGY

Course Info

• General Information Office Hours, Syllabus, Marking Scheme
• Reference textbooks useful for this course
• Lecture Notes in PDF format
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Intro.
  • Chapter 2 FRW Model.
  • Chapter 3 Classic Observational Cosmology.
  • Chapter 4 Big Bang Thermodynamics.
  • Chapter 5 Linear Perturbations.
  • Chapter 6 Statistics of Large-Scale Structure.
  • Chapter 7 Peculiar Velocities.
  • Chapter 8 Cosmic Microwave Background.
  • Chapter 9 Nonlinear Evolution.
  • Chapter 10 Galaxy Formation.
• Changes to Lecture Schedule
  • Thu Apr 5: No lecture
  • Tue Apr 10: Last lecture
  • Thu Apr 12: Talks in Guelph (Taylor and Comeau)
  • Tue Apr 17: Waterloo Talks (Hillier, Kirkpatrick, Stotyn)
  • Thu Apr 19: Waterloo Talks (Lu, McGee)
• Problems
  • Problem Set 1. Due Tue Feb 13. Guelph students please send to me by IUTS.
  • Problem Set 2. Due Thu Mar 8. Guelph students please send to me by IUTS.
  • Problem Set 3. Due Thu April 26. Guelph students please send to me by IUTS.
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• Term Paper (PDF)

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  Mike Hudson  mjhudson@uwaterloo.ca