Physics Department
ASTR 1P02
Outline
Unit 8: Stellar Evolution
Unit 9: Stellar Remnants
Unit 10: The Milky Way Galaxy
Unit 11: Galaxies
Unit 12: Cosmology
Unit 13: The Solar System
Unit 14: Small Bodies Orbiting the Sun
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Cosmology
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Clips (audio + video, mp4)
Cosmology, Part 1:
Introduction and Olbers's "Paradox"
(6:10)
Cosmology, Part 2:
The Big Bang Theory of the Origin of the Universe
(20:58)
Cosmology, Part 3:
The Fate of the Universe
(38:36)
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Notes (pdf)
Cosmology, Part 1
Cosmology, Part 2
Additional Sources of Information
Overview:
S. Carroll (California Institute of Technology)
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DAMTP (Cambridge University)
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N. Strobel (Bakersfield College)
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N. Wright, UCLA
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Most detailed map of the universe to date (Nature Video)
Olbers's "paradox" (the problem of the dark night sky):
BBC animation
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D. Rothstein (Cornell University)
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E.R. Harrison (University of Massachusetts)
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E.M. Alvarez
The origin of the universe:
NASA
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C. LaRocco and B. Rothstein (University of Michigan)
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Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
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Stunning new Planck images of universe's oldest light (BBC)
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Cosmic sound: Curvature and the cosmic background radiation (M. Bartelmann, Heidelberg University)
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Why we don't know what the Big Bang looked like (BBC)
The expansion of the universe:
Who discovered the expansion of the universe? (Nature)
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How fast is the universe expanding? (Dennis Overbye, New York Times)
The curvature of spacetime:
Eddington's experimental detection of the bending of starlight (Dennis Overbye, New York Times)
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J. Schombert (University of Oregon)
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Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
Gravitational waves:
Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes (BBC, Feb. 11, 2016)
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Gravitational waves: Numbers don't do them justice (BBC)
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Black hole kicked out of galaxy core by gravitational waves (CBC)
Cosmic inflation:
D. Bennett (University of Notre Dame)
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Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
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A. Guth (MIT)
Dark energy and the future of the universe:
LSST
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S. Carroll (California Institute of Technology)
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Cosmos may be inherently unstable (BBC)
Life in the universe:
Oldest traces of life on Earth found in Quebec (CBC)
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Seven exoplanets discovered (CBC, 24 Feb 2017)
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Space events may have changed the course of evolution of life on Earth (BBC)
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Searching for life on Ceres (The Atlantic)
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Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
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C. Miller (University of Maryland)
The fate of the universe:
Three ways to destroy the universe (Kurz Gesagt, YouTube)
History of cosmology:
Einstein and the origins of modern cosmology (C. O'Raifeartaigh)
Summary:
J. Lesgourgues essay (CERN and LAPTh)
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J. Lesgourgues lecture slides (CERN)
Music:
Across the Universe
(Beatles)
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