Portal talk:Cosmology

=To do list=
 * write a list of topics within cosmology that are essential for an undergraduate course
 * the picture needs a caption, this is an historic picture from the gnostic school of thought?
 * write material after a clear structure has been hammered out.

=topics= This is a rough list of ideas/topics that need to be covered: metrics + relativity, Friedman equation, expansion, cosmological principle, inflation, CMB, dark matter/dark energy, numerics (eg n-body/zeldovich), observations, luminosity-distance-age-redshift relations Augustus 18:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

=books=

A list of books about cosmology at undergraduate level, this probably forms a list of suggested reading:

basic/undergraduate:
 * An Introduction to Modern Cosmology - A Liddle
 * Introduction to Cosmology - M Roos
 * Modern Cosmological Obserbvations and Problems - G Bothun

advanced undergraduate/postgraduate:
 * Modern Cosmology - S Dodelson
 * Cosmological Physics - J Peacock
 * Cosmology and Astrophysics through Problems - T. Padmanabhan
 * Principles of Physical Cosmology - PJE Peebles
 * The Large Scale Structure of the Universe - PJE Peebles
 * Gravitation and Cosmology - S Weinberg
 * Physical Foundations of Cosmology - V Mukhanov

Add to list as necessary. Augustus 21:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)