MENCI Nicola
(syllabus)
- COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE AND ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC - FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS - THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL - REDSHIFT, COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES AND COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS - COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT - CLASSICAL COSMOLOGIAL TESTS: HUBBLE TEST. ANGULAR DIAMETER TEST. COUNTS - COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT - COSMIC FLUIDS AND THEIR EQUATION OF STATE - THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: DECOUPLING, RECOMBINATION - MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY - BEYOND STANDARD MODEL: HORIZON AND FLATNESS PARADOXES, INTRODUCTION TO COSMIC INFLATION - DARK MATTER - BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS - MATTER DOMINATED ERA. REIONIZATION. - FCOSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND - JEANS THEORY OF GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY - EVOLUTION OF COSMIC STRUCTURES - SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD - SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND PRESS & SCHECHTER THEORY - INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE FORMATION: N-BODY SIMULTAIONS - KEY PROCESSES IN GALAXY FORMATION - INTRODUCTION TO OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURE FORMATION
(reference books)
Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000] Peebles P.J.E. 1993. Principles of Physical Cosmology [Princeton Series in Physics 1993]
|