The Early Universe provides an introduction to modern cosmology.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
638 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
23
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Certificate of Completion
The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology.
In the News
For more about Professor Guth’s work, listen to this interview from WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio news station.
You may also be interested in this MIT Alumni Association Podcast Inflationary Cosmology—Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? with Professor Guth.
Course Currilcum
- Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I Unlimited
- Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II Unlimited
- The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity Unlimited
- The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe Unlimited
- Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I Unlimited
- The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II Unlimited
- The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III Unlimited
- The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV Unlimited
- The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V Unlimited
- Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces Unlimited
- Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes Unlimited
- Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric Unlimited
- Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation Unlimited
- The Geodesic Equation Unlimited
- Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I Unlimited
- Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II Unlimited
- Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III Unlimited
- Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I Unlimited
- The Cosmological Constant, Part II Unlimited
- Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density Unlimited
- Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model Unlimited
- The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem Unlimited
- Inflation Unlimited
