Portal talk:Cosmology
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To do list
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]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)
books
[edit source]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)