|
Date |
|
Day |
Ch |
Topic |
|
Aug |
18 |
W |
|
Introduction/Overview |
|
|
20 |
F |
1/2 |
Units/Olber's Paradox/Cosmological
Principle |
|
|
23 |
M |
2 |
Redshift/Age of
Universe/Particles |
|
|
25 |
W |
2 |
Blackbody Radiation/CMB - (get
l) |
|
|
27 |
F |
3 |
Special Relativity - Minkowski
Spacetime |
|
|
30 |
M |
3 |
Equivalence Principle/Gravity
and Curvature |
|
Sep |
1 |
W |
3 |
3D Metrics/Schwarzschild
Metric |
|
|
3 |
F |
3 |
Black Holes |
|
|
6 |
M |
|
Labor Day |
|
|
8 |
W |
3 |
Robertson-Walker Metric/Proper Distance |
|
|
10 |
F |
4 |
Friedman Equation/Hubble
Parameter |
|
|
13 |
M |
4 |
Density Parameter/Fluid and
Acceleration Eqns |
|
|
15 |
W |
4 |
Equation of State |
|
|
17 |
F |
4 |
Add
Cosmological Constant L |
|
|
20 |
M |
|
Exam I |
|
|
22 |
W |
5 |
One Component Universe - Energy Density |
|
|
24 |
F |
5 |
Curvature Only/Spatially Flat Universes |
|
|
27 |
M |
5 |
Spatially Flat Universes -
Only Radiation or L |
|
|
29 |
W |
6 |
Multicomponent Universes/Matter+Curvature |
|
Oct |
1 |
F |
6 |
Matter +
L,
Other Models |
|
|
4 |
M |
|
Break |
|
|
5 |
T |
|
Break |
|
|
6 |
W |
7 |
Measuring Cosmological Parameters -
q and H |
|
|
8 |
F |
7 |
Distances - Luminosity/Angular |
|
|
11 |
M |
7 |
Standard Candles |
|
|
13 |
W |
8 |
Visible Matter/Dark Matter in Galaxies |
|
|
15 |
F |
8 |
Dark Matter in Clusters |
|
|
18 |
M |
8 |
Gravitational Lensing |
|
|
20 |
W |
9 |
Cosmic Microwave Background/Observations |
|
|
22 |
F |
9 |
Recombination - Decoupling I |
|
|
25 |
M |
9 |
Recombination - Decoupling II |
|
|
27 |
W |
9 |
Temperature Fluctuations |
|
|
29 |
F |
|
Exam II |
|
Nov |
1 |
M |
10 |
Nucleosynthesis/Nuclear Physics
|
|
|
3 |
W |
10 |
Deuterium Synthesis |
|
|
5 |
F |
10 |
Heavier Nuclei/Barium-Antibaryon
Asymmetry |
|
|
8 |
M |
|
Particles and Symmetry I -
Isospin and SU(2) |
|
|
10 |
W |
|
Particles and Symmetry II -
Quarks and SU(3) |
|
|
12 |
F |
|
CPT/Spontaneous Symmetry
Breaking |
|
|
15 |
M |
|
Primeval Phase Transitions |
|
|
17 |
W |
11 |
Flatness/Horizon/Monopole
Problems |
|
|
19 |
F |
11 |
Inflation Solution |
|
|
22 |
M |
11 |
Physics of Inflation |
|
|
24 |
W |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
25 |
R |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
26 |
F |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
29 |
M |
12 |
The
Formation of Structure |
|
Dec |
1 |
W |
|
Epilogue - Open
Questions/Other Models |
|
|
3 |
F |
|
Final -
11:30 AM |