Lecture 18 - Thursday, 14 March 2013

Chapter 11 - Sections 11.2 - 11.7

• The big bang
• The shape of the universe
• Dark matter and dark energy
• Cosmic inflation

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard and in demonstrations.

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: (i) expansion of the universe using a balloon.

Today's animations:

• NASA's WMAP - The Oldest Light in the Universe: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/11feb_map.htm

• A Journey Back in Time to the Big Bang: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/030657/index.html

• Evolution of the universe (the oldest light in the universe): http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/030651/index.html

• The shape of the universe: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/030639/index.html

• Animations of the big bang, three possibilities for the fate of the universe, timelines, and more: http://snap.lbl.gov/multimedia/animations/

• (University of) Cambridge Relativity and Cosmology - public web pages: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/index.html

• NASA's Imagine the Universe website: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/science.html

• NASA/WMAP animations: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/resources/animconcepts.html

• Nova's "Runaway Universe" (has been called "one of the best sites on the Web!"): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/

• The Nature of the Universe: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/EducationResource/Universe/framed_e/lecture.html

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