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| Preface | |
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| Constants, conversion factors and symbols | |
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| A (Very) Brief History of Cosmological Ideas | |
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| Observational Overview | |
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| In visible light | |
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| In other wavebands | |
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| Homogeneity and isotropy | |
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| The expansion of the Universe | |
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| Particles in the Universe | |
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| What particles are there? | |
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| Thermal distributions and the black-body spectrum | |
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| Newtonian Gravity | |
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| The Friedmann equation | |
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| On the meaning of the expansion | |
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| Things that go faster than light | |
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| The fluid equation | |
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| The acceleration equation | |
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| On mass, energy and vanishing factors of c[superscript 2] | |
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| The Geometry of the Universe | |
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| Flat geometry | |
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| Spherical geometry | |
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| Hyperbolic geometry | |
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| Infinite and observable Universes | |
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| Where did the Big Bang happen? | |
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| Three values of k | |
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| Simple Cosmological Models | |
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| Hubble's law | |
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| Expansion and redshift | |
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| Solving the equations | |
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| Matter | |
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| Radiation | |
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| Mixtures | |
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| Particle number densities | |
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| Evolution including curvature | |
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| Observational Parameters | |
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| The expansion rate H[subscript 0] | |
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| The desnity parameter [Omega subscript 0] | |
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| The deceleration parameter q[subscript 0] | |
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| The Cosmological Constant | |
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| Introducing [Lambda] | |
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| Fluid description of [Lambda] | |
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| Cosmological models with [Lambda] | |
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| The Age of the Universe | |
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| The Density of the Universe and Dark Matter | |
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| Weighing the Universe | |
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| Counting stars | |
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| Nucleosynthesis foreshadowed | |
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| Galaxy rotation curves | |
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| Galaxy cluster composition | |
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| Bulk motions in the Universe | |
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| The formation of structure | |
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| The geometry of the Universe and the brightness of supernovae | |
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| Overview | |
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| What might the dark matter be? | |
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| Dark matter searches | |
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| The Cosmic Microwave Background | |
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| Properties of the microwave background | |
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| The photon to baryon ratio | |
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| The origin of the microwave background | |
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| The origin of the microwave background (advanced) | |
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| The Early Universe | |
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| Nucleosynthesis: The Origin of the Light Elements | |
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| Hydrogen and Helium | |
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| Comparing with observations | |
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| Contrasting decoupling and nucleosynthesis | |
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| The Inflationary Universe | |
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| Problems with the Hot Big Bang | |
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| The flatness problem | |
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| The horizon problem | |
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| Relic particle abundances | |
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| Inflationary expansion | |
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| Solving the Big Bang problems | |
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| The flatness problem | |
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| The horizon problem | |
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| Relic particle abundances | |
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| How much inflation? | |
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| Inflation and particle physics | |
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| The Initial Singularity | |
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| Overview: The Standard Cosmological Model | |
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| General Relativistic Cosmology | |
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| The metric of space-time | |
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| The Einstein equations | |
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| Aside: Topology of the Universe | |
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| Classic Cosmology: Distances and Luminosities | |
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| Light propagation and redshift | |
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| The observable Universe | |
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| Luminosity distance | |
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| Angular diameter distance | |
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| Source counts | |
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| Neutrino Cosmology | |
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| The massless case | |
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| Massive neutrinos | |
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| Light neutrinos | |
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| Heavy neutrinos | |
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| Neutrinos and structure formation | |
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| Baryogenesis | |
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| Structures in the Universe | |
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| The observed structures | |
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| Gravitational instability | |
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| The clustering of galaxies | |
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| Cosmic microwave background anisotropies | |
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| Statistical description of anisotropies | |
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| Computing the C[subscript l] | |
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| Microwave background observations | |
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| Spatial geometry | |
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| The origin of structure | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Numerical answers and hints to problems | |
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| Index | |