First Principles of Cosmology
    by Eric V. Linder

First Principles of Cosmology is an innovative textbook designed for upper undergraduate and beginning graduate students in phyics and astronomy. It was published in 1997 by Addison-Wesley in Europe and Prentice Hall in the US.

• Table of Contents
• Description
• Feedback
• Teacher's Guide
• Typo List
• Astrophysics Links
• Cosmology FAQ - answers to general audience and first year physics level questions
• Dark Energy FAQ - answers to general audience questions on dark energy

• Sample Lectures:
  • Opening Lecture (course introduction)
  • Final Lecture (course summary)
  • Hubble Expansion (Chapter 5)
  • Freezeout and Recombination [also pdf] (Chapter 6, 7)
  • Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation [also pdf] (Sections 7.1-7.4)
  • CMB Anisotropies: Physical Processes [also pdf] (Section 7.6)
  • CMB Anisotropies: Statistics and Measurements [also pdf] (Section 7.5)
  • CMB Anisotropies: Determining Cosmological Parameters [also pdf] (Chapter 7)
  • Lecture Notes from Computing Our Universe 1999 summer school
  • Cosmology Overview [also pdf] from Berkeley Lab Teach In
  • Particle Astrophysics [also pdf] from Berkeley Lab Teach In
• Additions/Expansions:
  • Equivalence Principle, Redshift, and Curvature (Section 1.3)
  • Redshift Drift (Section 3.5.2)
  • Scalar Fields, Quintessence, and the Cosmological Constant
  • Neutrino Oscillations and Mass
• New Think Abouts:
  • Relativistic Particle Kinematics [also pdf] (practice with four-momenta)
  • Energy-Momentum Tensor of the Vacuum [also pdf] (insight into the Cosmological Constant)
  • Relativistic Doppler Shift [also pdf] (practice with Lorentz transformations)
  • Geodesic Equation [also pdf] (practice in Minkowski and Schwarzschild space)
  • Magnitude-Redshift Relation [also pdf] (high z SN results, discriminating models)
  • Nucleosynthesis and T(CMB) [also pdf] (expanded TA 6.6)
  • Recombination [also pdf] (expanded THA 7.1)
  • Horizons and Inflation [also pdf] (Sections 4.7, 7.5)
  • Growth of Density Perturbations [also pdf] (expanded TA 8.3)
  • Power Spectrum of Perturbations [also pdf] (expanded TA 8.6)

The Computing Our Universe 1999 summer school also has an assortment of notes on cosmology and computational astrophysics related topics.