Author: John W. Norbury
Published in: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ISBN: 0-000-0000-0
File Type: pdf
File Size: 675 KB
Language: English
Author: John W. Norbury
Published in: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ISBN: 0-000-0000-0
File Type: pdf
File Size: 675 KB
Language: English
Published in: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ISBN: 0-000-0000-0
File Type: pdf
File Size: 675 KB
Language: English
Description
GENERAL RELATIVITY & COSMOLOGY for Undergraduates Many of the modern ideas in cosmology can be explained without the need to discuss General Relativity. The present chapter represents an attempt to do this based entirely on Newtonian mechanics. The equations describing the velocity (called the Friedmann equation) and acceleration of the universe are derived from Newtonian mechanics and also the cosmological constant is introduced within a Newtonian framework. The equations of state are also derived in a very simple way. Applications such as conservation laws, the age of the universe and the inflation, radiation and matter dominated epochs are discussed.
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