The Early Universe

The expanding universe, the microwave background and inflation.

Syllabus

  1. Lectures

    1. 1. Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I
    2. 2. Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse, Part II
    3. 3. The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity
    4. 4. The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe
    5. 5. Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I
    6. 6. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II
    7. 7. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III
    8. 8. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV
    9. 9. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V
    10. 10. Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces
    11. 11. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes
    12. 12. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric
    13. 13. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation
    14. 14. The Geodesic Equation
    15. 15. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I
    16. 16. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II
    17. 17. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III
    18. 18. Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I
    19. 19. The Cosmological Constant, Part II
    20. 20. Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density
    21. 21. Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model
    22. 22. The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem
    23. 23. Inflation