Cosmology

Catalog description

Gives an overview of observations and the mathematical framework describing cosmological phenomena. Introduces general relativity, space-time expansion curvature and expansion, the behavior of space-time in the presence of energy, and the way fluids evolve in dynamic space-times. Introduces distance measurements in cosmology, describe the physics of the early universe, big bang nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, growth of self-gravitating structures, measurements of cosmological parameters, dark matter and dark energy.