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Cosmology

• Reviews
  • Review I
  • Review II
  • Review III
  • Timeline of the Universe (Left Half, Right Half, Most Recent)
  • Monopole Problem - Unification of forces diagram
  • Symmetry - blurry
• http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
• http://www.spaceandmotion.com/cosmology-history-astronomy-universe-space.htm
• faculty.salisbury.edu/~jwhoward/astro108/html/Cosmology.ppt
• The Shapely-Curtis Debate

Special Relativity

• Think Like Einstein
• How Did Einstein Discover Relativity?
• Special Relativity - Brief Overview
• Length Contraction
• Dummies guide to Special Relativity
• Relativity Summary
• Introduction to Relativity
• The Lightcone - Intro to Relativity
• Relativity Notes - Math Intense
• Relativity Lecture Notes - With Spacetime Diagrams
• Cool Physics Movies

General Relativity

• Dr. Herman's GR Class
• Cambridge Relativity
• The Light Cone
• Spacetime
• Spacetime Wrinkles
  • Movies from the Edge of Spacetime
  • Fulfilling Einstein's Dream
• The Elegant Universe
• Spacetime 101
• GR for Students
• Gravitational Waves
  • LISA http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/
  • LIGO http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
• Gravitational Redshift, and at hyperphysics

Black Holes

• Smallest Black Hole
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Black Holes - Cambridge
• Black Holes FAQ
• Wikipedia Black Hole
• Relativity and Black Holes - Eastern Tennessee State University
• Falling into a Black Hole Movies
• Black Hole Thermodynamics
• Eddington-Finkelstein Maple
• YouTube Videos
  • Pulsars and Neutron Stars (4:23 min)
  • Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Other Dead Stars (9 min), Part 2 (6:41 min)
  • Extreme Physics of Black Holes (8 min), Part 2 (7 min)
  • Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and The Creator (10 min)
  • Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs, Space and Time - Simulation
  • Another Simulation
  • Cosmic Holes (1 of 5)
  • General Relativity: Cosmic Tunnels / Worm Holes
  • Supermassive Black Holes (1/5)

Cosmic Metric

• Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Metric
• Summary of Formulae for RW Metric
• Distance Measures in Cosmology
• Misconceptions about expansion

Friedmann Equation

• Wikipedia
• Newtonian derivation
• Susskind's Cosmology Lecture #8
• Solutions of the Friedmann Equation and also Here with applet
• The density parameter
• The Cosmic Triangle
• The Cosmic Triangle Paper

Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy

• The Dark Energy Survey, DES
• Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy
• Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter - TED Talks
• Dark Matter vs Dark Energy from The Black Hole War - Leonard Susskind, Videos
• Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe - Alex Filippenko

Observations

• Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• The Cepheids and Henrietta Leavitt YouTube Video
• Pulsating Variable Stars - New
• The Cosmic Distance Scale
• Chandra - Images, M31 - New Chandra results
• A Problem with Standard Candles? - Centauri Dreams Blog
• Standard Candles - Ronald E. Mickle - Paper on S.C.
• 2009 Cosmology Workshop Video - (Standard Candles 5:45 onward, includes apparent magnitude)
• Objects
  • Magellanic Clouds, LMC, Images
  • Messier M31, Andromeda Galaxy, Images
  • d Cephei - Images
  • The Local Group of Galaxies
  • Virgo Cluster, Images
  • Coma Cluster Images
• Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
• Cosmology with type Ia supernovae paper
• Stellar Evolution

Dark Matter

• Cosmic Variance - Dark Matter
• Gravitational Lensing
• Chandra Movies: MACS J0025.4-1222
• Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Bullet Cluster
• Coma Cluster Images
• Galaxy Taxonomy
• Evalyn Gates - April 19, 2009:
  Einstein's Telescope: The Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe
• Gravitational Lens Simulator

CMB - Recombination and Decoupling

• Lecture Notes on CMB - Hu - and other talks
• Physics of CMB Anisotropies - Challinor and Peiris
• Cosmology Lectures University Groningen
  • Cosmic Microwave Background     
• Images
  • DMR Images
  • WMAP
  • Power Spectrum

Inflationary Cosmology

• See Scott Watson's paper -from UNCW PHY 499 Honors Thesis
• Wikipedia on Inflation
• Inflation for beginners
• Flatness, Horizon, Monopole problems
• ΛCDM, or Standard, or Concordance Model
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey - Large scale structure

Alternative Theories

• Evidence for the Big Bang
• Alternative Cosmological Models
• Cyclic Universe - Turok and Steinhardt
• Niel Turok lecture and All Known Physics
• Big Bang Alternatives, Anyone?
• Alternatives to Cosmological Inflation - Brandenberger
• A New Challenge to Einstein

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