To do list

write a list of topics within cosmology that are essential for an undergraduate course
the picture needs a caption, this is an historic picture from the gnostic school of thought?
write material after a clear structure has been hammered out.

topics

This is a rough list of ideas/topics that need to be covered: metrics + relativity, Friedman equation, expansion, cosmological principle, inflation, CMB, dark matter/dark energy, numerics (eg n-body/zeldovich), observations, luminosity-distance-age-redshift relations Augustus 18:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

books

A list of books about cosmology at undergraduate level, this probably forms a list of suggested reading:

basic/undergraduate:

An Introduction to Modern Cosmology - A Liddle
Introduction to Cosmology - M Roos
Modern Cosmological Obserbvations and Problems - G Bothun

advanced undergraduate/postgraduate:

Modern Cosmology - S Dodelson
Cosmological Physics - J Peacock
Cosmology and Astrophysics through Problems - T. Padmanabhan
Principles of Physical Cosmology - PJE Peebles
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe - PJE Peebles
Gravitation and Cosmology - S Weinberg
Physical Foundations of Cosmology - V Mukhanov

Add to list as necessary. Augustus 21:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply