PHYS 4202

Cosmology

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Observational evidence for the Big Bang. Cosmological space-time, expansion dynamics and contents of the universe. Physical processes in the expanding universe, inflation, nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, dark matter, and dark energy.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3701 , PHYS 3606 or PHYS 3608 , and PHYS 2401 or PHYS 4409 , or permission of the Department. ( PHYS 3606 or PHYS 3608 and PHYS 4409 may be taken concurrently). Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as PHYS 5402 , for which additional credit is precluded. Lectures three hours per week.

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027