Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour., Prerequisite(s): graduate standing; PHYS 208
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Description: Discusses advanced topics in cosmology: Friedmann models and the large-scale structure of the universe, Hubble constant and deceleration parameter, and galaxy counting and the physics of the early universe. Also covers vacuum phase transitions, inflation, baryon number generation, fluctuations, topological defects and textures, primordial nucleosynthesis, density fluctuations, dark matter candidates, and the age of the universe.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.