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638 years, 9 months
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Instructor: Professor Alan Guth. The Early Universe provides an introduction to modern cosmology. The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology. (from ocw.mit.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – The Geodesic Equation Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – The Cosmological Constant, Part II Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Inflation Unlimited
