Astro 3002 - Galaxies & Cosmology

Coordinators: Geoff Bicknell & Brian Schmidt
Contact: email brian@mso.anu.edu.au
Phone: 5-8042

Grades will be split Bicknell 50%, Schmidt 50% via assignments.

Cosmology grade will be made up of an Essay (10% ), and two
problem sets (45% each).

Lecture A Tuesday 11am-12pm PM PSYC G8 (Building 39)
Lecture B Wednesday 12pm-1pm PM PSYC G8 (Building 39)
Lecture C Friday 11am-12pm BoZo B17 (Building 44)
Tutorial

After each Class

 

Useful Books and Resources

A3002 Wattle - includes Discussion Forum

Essay: Take Drafts for comment on/before Sep 8th ~700 words, Due Sep 15th.

Assignment-1 Cosmology: Due 25 September. Need an extension, ask early, and Justify.

This is no longer being kept up to date... Use the Wattle site!

 

  Date Title Lecturer Download Notes
Lecture 0 28 Aug 09 Gamma Ray Bursts Brian Schmidt lecture0(pdf) (ppt)
Lecture 1 1 Sep 09 Introduction and History of Cosmology Brian Schmidt  lecture1(pdf) (ppt)
Lecture 2 2 Sep 09 Newtonian Cosmology Brian Schmidt  lecture 2(pdf) (ppt) (Closed.xls)
Lecture 3 4 Sep 09 General Relativity Geoff Bicknell

 lecture 3(pdf) (ppt)

Sean Carroll's GR and Cosmology in 23 pages

Lecture 4 8 Sep 09 Robertson-Walker Solutions Brian Schmidt  lecture 4(pdf) (ppt)
  9 Sep 09
No class ..Work on Essay or Problem Set
Lecture 5 11 Sep 09 Observational Tests Brian Schmidt  lecture 5(pdf) (ppt)
Lecture 6 15 Sep 09 Deceleration Parameter Brian Schmidt

 lecture 6(pdf) (ppt)(integrate.xls) (q0.xls)

Lecture 7 16 Sep 09 Historical Cosmological Observations Brian Schmidt lecture 7(pdf) (ppt) (Volume.xls)
 
Lecture 8 18 Sep 09

The Distance Scale and The Hubble Constant

Brian Schmidt lecture 8(pdf) (ppt)
Lecture 9 22 Sep 09 Accelerating Universe Brian Schmidt

lecture 9(pdf) (ppt)

(Craps.xls) (Craps.pl)

Lecture10 23 Sep 09 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Brian Schmidt

lecture 11(pdf) (ppt)(Maxwellian.xls)

Lecture11 25 Sep 09 Inflation Brian Schmidt

lecture 12(pdf) (ppt)
Liddles's notes (pdf)
Davis & Lineweaver (pdf)

Lecture12 13 Oct 09 Large Scale Structure Brian Schmidt lecture 13(pdf) (ppt)
Lecture13 14 Oct 09 The Cosmic Microwave Background
Brian Schmidt

Lecture 15(pdf) (ppt) Wayne Hu's notes (pdf)

CMB-sound.xls

Lecture14 16 Oct 09 First Stars and Galaxies Brian Schmidt Lecture 16(pdf) (ppt)
End of Classes