ASTRO 4433 - [Introduction to Cosmology]

(crosslisted)
(also PHYS 4433) (PBS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: math/calculus at 2000-level, physics at 3000-level or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015.

R. Bean.

An introduction to theoretical and observational cosmology aimed at interested science and engineering majors. Topics include an introduction to general relativity as applied to the cosmos; the cosmic expansion history and how it relates to the nature of matter in the universe; processes in the early universe; how galaxies and clusters of galaxies form; current and prospective cosmological surveys of galaxies, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, and the cosmic microwave background. The material is at a less technical level than the graduate cosmology course ASTRO 6599.