GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY
Chapter 8: Cosmology

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TEXTBOOK: Spacetime and Geometry - An Introduction to General Relativity, by Sean M. Carroll

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Maximally Symmetric Universes
  2. Robertson-Walker Metrics
  3. The Friedmann Equation
  4. Evolution of the Scale Factor
  5. Redshifts and Distances
  6. Gravitational Lensing
  7. Our Universe
  8. Inflation

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