UCL Postgraduate Lectures, 2007
Whole UCL/Imperial Astrophysics Group Postgraduate Lecture Course
Handouts
Please note that there are many gaps in the handouts, and sections that
are lectured but not contained in the handouts.
Handout 1 pdf.
Cosmology: overview.
Reading 1 on cosmology Turner article
astro-ph/0102057 (quiz Tue 6 March).
Reading 2 on power spectra
(important background reading for Tue 6 March)
Problem sheet. Available Tue 6 March.
Due in Tue 20 March.
Shown in lectures
Two versions are provided:
(gaps) is the pdf file before the lecture was given, containing unfilled gaps
and unanswered quiz questions.
(filled) is the pdf file after the lecture, showing what was written on
the slide.
There will be some (examinable) longer derivations shown only on the whiteboard on the
lecture, which are therefore not available on this web page.
Further information
Liddle, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology (Discount copies available from Prof Don Davies)
UCL Galaxies and Cosmology research group
Royal Society lecture
"The dark side of the universe"