The Early Universe

Lecture Slides

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1	Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I (PDF)
2	Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II (PDF)
3	The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity (PDF)
4	The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe (PDF)
5	Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I (PDF)
6	The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II (PDF)
7	The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III (PDF)
8	The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV (PDF)
9	The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V (PDF)
10	Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces (PDF - 1.1MB)
11	Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes (PDF)
12	Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric (PDF)
13	Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation (PDF)
14	The Geodesic Equation (PDF)
15	Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I (PDF)
16	Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II (PDF)
17	Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III (PDF)
18	Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I (PDF)
19	The Cosmological Constant, Part II (PDF)
20	Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density (PDF)
21	Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model (PDF)
22	The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem (There are no Lecture Slides for this lecture.)
23	Inflation (PDF)