Cosmology V: History of the Universe

Topics:

• history of the universe
• inflation
• nucleosynthesis
• cosmic background radiation
• postrecombination

Outline:

1 SCALING
1.1 Temperature
1.2 Temperature-Time-Redshift Relation
1.3 Entropy

2 BACK TO THE BIG BANG
2.1 Extrapolation
2.2 History of the Universe

3 EARLY UNIVERSE
3.1 Nucleosynthesis
3.2 Inflation
3.3 Matter-Radiation Equality

4 COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
4.1 Thermalization Epoch
4.2 Recombination Epoch
4.3 Postrecombination

Cosmology V Lecture Notes
Handout:

• Temperature-Time-Redshift relation
• CDM Simulation Models

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