AST4220 - H?st 2010

Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
17.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Practical info about the course. A short overview of cosmology and "roadmap" for the course. ? The course lecture notes and exercises can be found in: O. Elgaroy's lecture notes and in David F. Mota lectures notes??
19.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Summary of the main cosmological observations and features of the Universe. Introduction to line elements.? Lecture notes: 1.1 and 1.2?
25.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Curved spaces: the surface of a sphere. The Robertson-Walker line element.? Lecture notes: 1.3, 1.4.

Slides of all the lectures?

26.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 plus 8 others? The exercises 1.1, 1.2 1.3 are to be found on page 53 and 54 in Elgaroy's lecture notes.

The other 8 exercises (and its solutions!) are to be found here?

31.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Redshifts and distances? Lecture notes: 1.5?
31.08.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? The Friedmann equations? Lecture notes: 1.6

Slides of all the lectures

You can find the 'Home Exercises' within the slides.?

07.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Equations of state, energy density? Lecture notes: 1.7, 1.8?
09.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Energy density, the cosmological constant, cosmological models? 1.8, 1.9, 1.10.1 in the lecture notes

Do all the 'exercises' within the lecture-slides?

14.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercise 1.5 and 1.7? Note: there is a typo in exercise 1.5b): There should be no c^2 in the expression for Omega_Lambda0?
16.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Sample problem: Exam December 3rd 2004, problem 3. Exam Jan 12 2006, Problem 1 + Exam Oct 10 2007 Problem 1 ? Sample exams from previous years can be found here (as a zip file). Let me know if you have problems to unzip this.?
16.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? The de Sitter universe, curved models, models with more than one component? 1.10.2 - 1.10.6?
21.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercise 1.6, 1.8, 1.14? ?
21.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Example: Exam Dec 11 2006, problem 3? ?
23.09.2009David F. Mota? ? Cosmological models ? Rest of 1.10, except 1.10.7 which is not on the curriculum?
28.09.2009David F. Mota? ? Exercise 1.9, 1.11, Exam Dec 12 2007, problem 3. Sample problem: Exam Oct 12 2005, Problem 1 + Exam Dec 1 2005 Problem 1 ? ?
28.09.2009David F. Mota? ? Sample problem: exam 2003, problem 1c), d) and e)? ?
30.09.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Horizons, observables? 1.11 and 1.13 in the lecture notes. Section 1.12 is not on the curriculum.

Get here the last lecture on chapter 1?

12.10.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Introduction to the thermal history of the Universe.? Particle Physics in a Nutshell

Slides of Chapter 2, part I, of the lectures?

14.10.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Chapter 2 continues...? Slides of Chapter 2, part II, of the lectures?
19.10.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? 2.2,2.3, 2.4? Slides of Chapter 2, part III, of the lectures?
21.10.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercise 2.1, 2.2, 2.3,2.4 and Sample exam: December 2003 1-b)? Slides of Chapter 2, part IV, of the lectures?
26.10.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? BBN? Slides of Chapter 2, part V, of the lectures?
02.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Inflation? Slides of Chapter 3, Inflation?
04.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? More about Inflation? ?
09.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304 ? Exercises on Inflation? ?
11.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercises on Inflation. Old exams.? ?
16.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Structure Formation? ?
18.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? More about Structure Formation? Slides of Chapter 4, Structure Formation?
23.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercises about Structure Formation? ?
25.11.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Exercises about Structure Formation. Old Exams? ?
09.12.2009David F. Mota? Room 304? Final Exam Dec 2009? ?
19.10.2010David F. Mota? ? ? Several previous years Exam SOLUTIONS?
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