Lecture Slides & Recordings
| Reading | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Slides (pdf) | Zoom (mp4) | Ryden | Other |
| Aug 24 | Introduction | Zoom | Chapter 1 | Harrison Ch. 4 |
| Aug 26 | Hubble Expansion | Zoom | Chapter 2 | Harrison Ch. 3 |
| Aug 31 | Distances | Zoom | Chapter 3 | |
| Sep 2 | FRW Models | Zoom | Chapter 4 | |
| Sep 7 | Radiation & the CMB | Zoom | Chapter 8 | |
| Sep 9 | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis | Zoom | Chapter 9 | |
| Sep 14 | BBN - Observations | Zoom | Chapter 9 | |
| Sep 16 | Expansion History Cases | Zoom | Chapter 4, 5 | Notes |
| Sep 21 | Time and Distance | Zoom | Chapter 4, 5 | |
| Sep 23 | Distance-Redshift Relations | Zoom | Chapter 6 | |
| Sep 28 | Galaxy Counts | Zoom | Sanders | Sandage | |
| Sep 30 | Galaxy Selection | Zoom | MBS | |
| Oct 5 | Review to date | Zoom | Chapters 1 - 9 | Notes |
| Oct 7 | Quiz | |||
| Oct 12 | Galaxy Evolution | Zoom | Schombert | |
| Oct 14 | Distance Scale I | Zoom | Jacoby et al. | |
| Oct 19 | Distance Scale II | Zoom | Stellar pulsation | |
| Oct 21 | Distance Scale III | Zoom | ||
| Oct 26 | Age Constraints | Zoom | Age Notes (vintage 1999) | |
| Oct 28 | Timeline of the Early Universe | Zoom | ||
| Nov 2 | Cosmic Microwave Background | Zoom | Chapter 8 | |
| Nov 4 | Structure Formation | Zoom | Chapter 7, 11 | |
| Nov 9 | The Power Spectrum | Zoom | Chapter 11 | |
| Nov 11 | Inflation | Zoom | Chapter 10, 12 | |
| Nov 16 | Review | Zoom | Chapters 7 - 12 | Notes |
| Nov 18 | Quiz | |||
| Nov 30 | Project presentations | |||
| Dec 2 | Project presentations | |||
| Dec 10 | Quiz | Noon - 3PM | Same size as other quizes | |