Spring 2008: PHYS 652 - Astrophysics
Instructor:
Dr. Balša Terzić
bterzic@nicadd.niu.edu
(815) 753-1821
Office hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-4:00pm (or by appointment) Faraday West 230
Meeting time:
Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00-5:15pm
Textbook:
Modern Cosmology
, Scott Dodelson
Syllabus
Homework
Homework Set #1
Due Monday, March 3, 2008
Homework Set #2
Due Monday, April 7, 2008
Homework Set #3
Due Monday, May 12, 2008
Articles
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Lectures (
all lectures and appendices
)
Lecture 1: Introduction, Outline and Motivation
Lecture 2: Basic Concepts of General Relativity
(Appendix to Lecture 2
Lecture notes on SR by Professor Henry Kandrup
)
Lecture 3: Einstein's Field Equations
Lecture 4: The Cosmological Metric
Lecture 5: Solutions of Friedmann Equations
Lecture 6: Age of the Universe
(Appendix to Lecture 6)
Lecture 7: Cosmic Distances
Lecture 8: Summary of Foundations of Cosmology
Lecture 9: Cosmic Inventory I: Radiation
(Appendix to Lecture 9)
Lecture 10: Cosmic Inventory II: Baryonic and Dark Matter
Lecture 11: Cosmic Inventory II -- continued: Dark Matter Candidates
Lecture 12: Cosmic Inventory III: Dark Energy
Lecture 13: History of the Very Early Universe
Lecture 14: Early Universe
(Appendix to Lecture 14)
Lecture 15: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) (continued)
Lecture 16: Light Element Abundances and Recombination
Lecture 17: Recombination and Dark Matter Production
Lecture 18: Dark Matter Particle Production
Lecture 19: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Lecture 20: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- continued
Lecture 21: The Schwarzschild's Metric and Black Holes
Lecture 22: Degeneracy of Matter
Lecture 23: The Lane-Emden Equation
Lecture 24: Galaxies: Classification and Treatment
Lecture 25: Galaxies: Analytic Models
Lecture 26: Galaxies: Numerical Models
Maple programs
Solving ODE for the decay of neutron-nucleon ratio
Plotting distances in the Universe with dark energy