ASTR508

COSMOLOGY

THE COSMOLOGY OF AN ISOTROPIC UNIVERSE

Professor: Julio F. Navarro

List of Topics

• RUDIMENTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
• 4-dimensional space-time
• The Equivalence Principle
• Riemann Tensor and Parallel Transport
• Stress Energy Tensor
• Einstein Field Equations
• THE ISOTROPIC UNIVERSE
• The Cosmological Principle
• Cosmological Time
• Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Metric
• Cosmological Redshift
• Hubble's Law
• Angular Diameter Distances
• Luminosity Distance
• FRIEDMANN WORLD MODELS
• Dust Models with no Cosmological Constant
• Newtonian analog
• The "flatness" problem
• Dust Models with non-zero Cosmological Constant
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Matter and Radiation Eras
• Deceleration Parameter
• Horizons
• COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS
• Hubble's constant
• Deceleration parameter from SNIa
• Stellar time scales and the age of the universe.

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