GR9 · Cosmology
A 22-module path through gr9 · cosmology, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- The Cosmological Principle
- The FLRW Metric
- Comoving and Proper Coordinates
- The Scale Factor and Hubble Parameter
- Cosmological Redshift
- The Friedmann Equations
- The Cosmological Fluid and Equation of State
- Critical Density and the Density Parameters
- The Radiation-Dominated Era
- The Matter-Dominated Era
- The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy
- The Dark-Energy-Dominated Era
- Cosmological Horizons
- The Thermal History of the Early Universe
- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Recombination and the Cosmic Microwave Background
- The Horizon Problem
- The Flatness Problem
- Cosmic Inflation
- The Inflaton and Slow-Roll Dynamics
- Primordial Perturbations and the Power Spectrum
- The Lambda-CDM Concordance Model