Modern Cosmology
Master Course FAS 035 (5 points)   
THIS COURSE IS GIVEN EACH YEAR
LECTURERS: Marek Abramowicz  & Gustaf Rydbeck
IN 2004 FIRST LECTURE: Tuesday, March 16, 15:15 (FL72)
IN 2004 LAST LECTURE: Tuesday, May 18 13:15 (FL72)

IN 2004 LECTURES:
Tuesdays 15:15-17:00 (FL72)
Thursdays 13:15-15:00 (FL64)
TEXT BOOK: Malcom S. Longair: Galaxy Formation, Springer, 1998.
Other useful books

SELF-STUDY:
about 2/3 of the course program will be covered by lectures in the classroom, the remaining 1/3 will be done as self-studying. The topics for self-study will be given at the end of each lecture (typically small, well defined problems).

EXAM: writen exam as default, essay presentations for a few volenteers

LANGUAGE the course will be given in English. 		COURSE TOPICS: 
=Matter distribution: stars, galaxies, 
=Dark matter,
=Cosmological Principles,
=The Robertson-Walker metric,
=Friedman's models,cosmological parameters,
=Observational tests of the Friedman models,
=Matter and radiation dominated expansion,
=Recombination, the surface of last scattering,
=Synthesis of the light elements,
=Puzzles and problems: flatness, horizon,
=Inflation, 
=Jeans instability,
=Perturbations in Friedman's models,
=Adiabatic and isothermal fluctuations,
=Fluctuations in non baryonic matter,
=Hot and cold dark matter models,
=Clustering spectra and model predictions,
=Fluctuations in cosmic background radiation
Course calendar 2004
Essays 2004
Twenty exam questions 2004
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Marek A. Abramowicz: Astrophysics, Chalmers University, 412-96 Göteborg, Sweden, Phone: +46(31)772-3135, Fax: +46(31)772-3204
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