Cosmology (MKTP5)

Material

• Lectures

• Lectures_MB_Cosmology.pdf
• Lecture_Day1_171024.pdf
• Lecture_Day2_181024.pdf
• Lecture_Day3_241024.pdf
• Lecture_Day4_251024.pdf
• Lecture_Day5_311024.pdf
• Lecture_Day6_071124.pdf
• Lecture_Day7_141124.pdf
• Lecture_Day8_151124.pdf

• Exercise sheets

• Exercise_Sheet_1.pdf
• Exercise_Sheet_2.pdf
• Exercise_Sheet_3.pdf
• Exercise_Sheet_4.pdf

• Solutions

• Exercise_Sheet_1_with_Solutions.pdf
• Exercise_1.3_Perturbations.nb
• Exercise_Sheet_2_with_Solutions.pdf
• Exercise_2.3_FLRW.nb
• Exercise_Sheet_3_with_Solutions.pdf

• Additional material

• CAT_2.pdf
• Exercise_Sheet_5.pdf
• CAT_3.pdf
• Preamble.nb
• Lecture_Day9_211124.pdf
• Lecture_Day10_221124.pdf

Literature suggestions

The lecture mostly follows along

• M. Bartelmann, Cosmology, https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/e1e57faba9a44eb88692/

General Relativity literature

• R. Wald, General Relativity (more mathematical)
• C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (very extensive)
• N. Strautmann, General Relativity (more mathematical)
• E. Poisson, A Relativist's Toolkit (easily accessible and intuitive)
• P. Jetzer, Applications of General Relativity (application oriented)

Find these books in the university library.

Cosmology

• S. Weinberg, Cosmology
• S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology
• V. Mukhanov, Physical Foundations of Cosmology
• B. Ryden, Introduction to Cosmology
• D. Baumann, Cosmology (specially the section on Inflation)

Find these books in the university library.

Additional reading

• L. Heisenberg, A systematic approach to generalisations of General Relativity and their cosmological implications, (sec. 12), https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01725

Practice groups

• Group 1 (Ben Pennell)
  16 participants
  Phil 12 056, Wed 09:15 - 11:00
• Group 2 (Steven Tanady)
  17 participants
  INF 227 03.403, Mon 11:15 - 13:00
• Group 3 (Jhananii Yuvaraj Babu)
  8 participants
  INF 227 02.403, Wed 09:15 - 11:00
• Group 4 (Rohan Kulkarni)
  25 participants
  Phil 12 nHS, Tue 16:15 - 18:00
• Group 5 (Aron Kordt)
  22 participants
  Phil 12 068, Fri 09:15 - 11:00