Lecturers: Lectures: Announcements:
Rien van de Weygaert,
Kapteynborg ZG 186, Zernike Campus tel. 3634086, weygaert@astro.rug.nl
The lecture schedule will be:
Monday 19:05-21:00 hoorcollege/lecture
Academiegebouw, Heijmanszaal
Friday 15:00-17:00 hoorcollege/lecture (4 classes), werkcollege/tutorial (4 classes)
Kapteynborg, Zernike campus, 5419.0008
First lecture on wednesday November 13, Academiegebouw
Second lecture on friday November 15, Kapteynborg
Third lecture on tuesday November 19, Academiegebouw.
Cancelled: lecture friday Nov. 22, due to birth daughter.
Tutorial lecture friday November 29, Kapteynborg, 5419.0008
Tutorial lecture friday December 13, Kapteynborg, 5419.0008
Exam: tuesday January 21, 08:30-11:20; Bernoulliborg 5161.0151
studying the recession of galaxies at the Mt. Wilson 100inch telescope
Literature:
The course will be based on
lecture notes/slides (see below)
book:
Cosmos, An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
John North
2nd ed., 2008, Univ. Chicago Press (paperback)
additional books you may want to consult (ie., do not buy, these are not course books):
Cosmology, the Science of the Universe
Edward Harrison
2nd ed., 2000, Cambridge Univ. Press
Conceptions of Cosmos:
From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology
H. Kragh
2013, Oxford Univ. Press
the History and Practic of Ancient Astronomy
James Evans
1998, Oxford Univ. Press
Ancient Cosmologies
eds. C. Blacker, M. Loewe
1975, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
Selection of key scientific publications in cosmology:
- Hubble E., 1929, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, Vol. 15, 168-173
a relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae
- Penzias A.A., Wilson R.W., 1965, Astrophys. J., 142, 419-421
a measurement of excess antenna temperature at 080 Mc/s
- Dicke R.H., Peebles P.J.E., Roll P.G., Wilkinson, D.T., 1965, Astrophys. J., 142, 414-419
Cosmic Black-body Radiation
Kepler's Geometric Model of the Cosmos
Lecture Notes & Exam Material: Tutorials:
The course is based upon the lecture notes. The content of these is the exam material.
Below you find a listing of the notes, for you to download in 3 formats (pptx, pdf, pdf with 2 slides per page).
Generals pptx
Generals pdf
Fundamental Questions pptx
Fundamental Questions pdf
Cosmology Timeline pptx
Cosmology Timeline pdf
Heavenly Rhythms pptx
Heavenly Rhythms pdf
Gods & Myths pptx
Gods & Myths pdf
Order in the Cosmos pptx
how Babylonians and Greeks rationalized the heavens
Order in the Cosmos pdf
how Babylonians and Greeks rationalized the heavens
the Universe Mechanized pptx
Hellenistic Cosmology
the Universe Mechanized pdf
Hellenistic Cosmology
the Universe Mechanized pptx
the Antikythera Mechanism
the Universe Mechanized pdf
the Antikythera Mechanism
the Scientific Revolution pptx
the Scientific Revolution pdf
Gravity pptx
the Curved Cosmos of Einstein
Gravity pdf
the Curved Cosmos of Einstein
the Big Bang pptx
the Big Bang pdf
the Expanding Universe pptx
the Expanding Universe pdf
the Early Universe pptx
the Early Universe pdf
Cosmology Awareness Poll, assignment
Cosmology Awareness Poll, group list
Cosmic Debates, assignment
Cosmic Debates, group list
Exam:
The exam will be in the form of
written exam (tuesday Jan. 21, 08:30-11:30)
Exam examples: 10 typical questions of a Cosmic Origins exam:
Exam example questions
