GenS 4003

Cosmology

Lecture notes
A/Prof. John Webb



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Table of Contents

Title

Modern Cosmology

Reading Material

Our Galaxy (The Milky Way)

Our Galaxy 2

Our Galaxy 3

Formation of Spiral Structure

The orbits of other stars

How much does our galaxy weigh?

The Missing Mass

Evidence for the Missing Mass

What is the Missing Mass?

Gravitational Lensing

Extragalactic Gravitational Lensing

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What use are Gravitational Lenses?

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What use are Gravitational Lenses? 2

What use are Gravitational Lenses? 3

Evidence for the Big Bang

Hubble's Law

Evidence for the Big Bang 2

The wave nature of light

How to make a spectrum!

Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953)

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The original paper by Hubble

The original Hubble diagram

Evidence for the Big Bang 3

Evidence for the Big Bang 4

Evidence for the Big Bang 5

Cosmological Principle

Olber's Paradox

Olber's Paradox 2

Olber's Paradox 3

Solution to Olber's Paradox

Critical Density

The Density Parameter

The Evolution of the Universe

Problems with the big Bang

Inflationary solution

The Hubble Deep Field

The Hubble Deep Field 2

The Hubble Deep Field 3

Author: John Webb

Email: jkw@edwin.phys.unsw.edu.au