Cosmology lecture notes

outline......Page 1 chapter00......Page 3 A Very Brief History......Page 4 Expansion of the Universe......Page 6 Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)......Page 8 Baryonic Universe......Page 11 Evidence for Dark Matter......Page 12 Galaxies......Page 16 The ``Standard Model''......Page 18 The Metric......Page 21 Robertson-Walker metric......Page 22 Kinematics of the Expansion......Page 25 Dynamics of the Expansion......Page 28 Solutions to Friedmann equation......Page 31 Horizons......Page 33 Distance Measures in Cosmology......Page 35 Cosmological tests based on standard candles and rods......Page 37 Ages and the Hubble Constant......Page 40 Temperature Evolution of the Blackbody Radiation......Page 44 Thermodynamics in the Early Universe......Page 45 A Brief Thermal History à la Kolb & Turner......Page 47 Physics of ``Re''combination......Page 49 Primordial Nucleosynthesis......Page 51 Neutron freeze-out......Page 52 Observations of the Light Elements......Page 53 Jeans' analysis......Page 55 Growth of matter and radiation fluctuations in a flat Universe......Page 60 Collisionless Damping......Page 63 The Transfer Function......Page 64 ``Initial'' Conditions for k......Page 65 Fourier Transforms......Page 66 Filtering......Page 67 Correlation Function......Page 71 Theory......Page 74 Root-mean-square velocities......Page 75 The Peculiar Velocity Field......Page 76 Redshift-Space Distortions......Page 77 Gravitational Lensing......Page 80 Fermat's Principle......Page 83 Strong Lensing......Page 84 Strong lensing by galaxies......Page 85 Microlensing......Page 86 Weak Lensing - Magnification and Shear......Page 87 Spherical Collapse......Page 90 Mass Multiplicity Functions......Page 92 Merger Trees......Page 94 The Internal Structure of Cold Dark Matter Haloes......Page 95 Towards an understanding of the large-scale features of the galaxy distribution......Page 96 Elliptical galaxies......Page 98 Angular Momentum......Page 101 Disk galaxies......Page 103 Fluctuations on Large Scales......Page 104 Large-Scale Angular Power Spectrum......Page 106 Sound Waves in the CMB......Page 107 Curvature Effects......Page 111 Secondary Sources of TT......Page 112 Horizon Problem......Page 113 Dynamics of the Inflaton Field......Page 114 The Chaotic Inflation Scenario......Page 116 Fluctuations from Inflation......Page 117 assign1......Page 119 assign2......Page 120 assign3......Page 121 termpaper......Page 125