Hawley-Holcomb Textbook Course Note Links

Part I History

• Chapter 1: In the Beginning
• Chapter 2: Cosmology Becomes a Science
• Chapter 3: Newton’s Machine

Part II Background

• Chapter 4: Lighting the Worlds
• Chapter 5: Lives of the Stars

Part III Relativity

• Chapter 6: Infinite Space and Absolute Time
• Chapter 7: The Special Theory of Relativity
• Chapter 8: The General Theory of Relativity
• Chapter 9: Black Holes

Part IV The Big Bang

• Chapter 10: Expanding Universe
• Chapter 11: Modeling the Universe
• Chapter 12: The Early Universe
• Chapter 13: Testing the Models
• Chapter 14: A Message from the Big Bang

Part V The Continuing Quest

• Chapter 15: Dark Matter and Large-Scale Structure
• Chapter 16: Inflationary Universe
• Chapter 17: The Edge of Time

Harrison Textbook Course Note Links

• Chapter 1: What is Cosmology
• Chapter 2: Early Scientific Cosmology
• Chapter 3: Cartesian and Newtonian World Systems
• Chapter 4: Cosmology After Newton and Before Einstein
• Chapter 5: Stars
• Chapter 6: Galaxies
• Chapter 7: Location and the Cosmic Center
• Chapter 8: Containment and the Cosmic Edge
• Chapter 9: Space and Time
• Chapter 10: Curved Space
• Chapter 11: Special Relativity
• Chapter 12: General Relativity
• Chapter 13: Black Holes
• Chapter 14: Expansion of the Universe
• Chapter 15: Redshifts
• Chapter 16: Newtonian Cosmology
• Chapter 17: The Cosmic Box
• Chapter 18: The Many Universes
• Chapter 19: Observational Cosmology
• Chapter 20: The Early Universe
• Chapter 21: Horizons in the Universe
• Chapter 22: Inflation
• Chapter 23: The Cosmic Numbers
• Chapter 24: Darkness at Night
• Chapter 25: Creation of the Universe
• Chapter 26: The Golden Age of Cosmology

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Course Software

On occasions there will be information for the course in the form of MS Excel spreadsheets. From this page, one may obtain copies of the file by right clicking the mouse on the links given below. This will allow you to download the document (Save Link Target As…) to your computer. If you left click the mouse, the Excel file will open in MS Excel assuming it has been loaded on your machine.

1. Planetary Motion Simulator
2. Binary Star Motion Simulator
3. Planck Function Calculator
4. Hydrogen Ionization and Excitation
5. Solar Abundances
6. Solar Interior Model
7. Rosseland Mean Opacity
8. Kramers Opacity
9. Solar Photosphere Model
10. Zero-Age Main Sequence Models
11. Stellar Continuum Fluxes
12. Distance Conversions
13. MK Spectral Type and Photometry
14. Friedmann-Lemaitre Cosmological Models

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Even Older Course Notes Links

• Part I. Horizon-Stonehenge Cosmology
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Origins of Science
  • Chapter 2. Dawning of Time and Ancient Stone Monuments
  • Chapter 3. Mesopotamian and Egyptian Cosmology
  • Chapter 4. Coordinates and Time
• Part II. Greek Cosmology
  • Chapter 5. Intellectual World of the Greeks
  • Chapter 6. Aristotelian Science and Cosmology
  • Chapter 7. Ptolemaic System of the World
  • Chapter 8. Islamic Science
  • Chapter 9. Science of the Middle Ages
  • Chapter 10. Copernicus and Kepler
• Part III. Galilean-Newtonian Cosmology
  • Chapter 11. Galileo and Descartes
  • Chapter 12. Newtonian Science
  • Chapter 13. Structure of Newtonian Science
  • Chapter 14. Newtonian Cosmology
  • Chapter 15. The Success and End of Newtonian Science
• Part IV. Einstein-Friedmann Cosmology
  • Chapter 16. The 20th Century Revolution in Physics
  • Chapter 17. More About the Structure of Science
  • Chapter 18. Advances in Stellar Astronomy After Newton
  • Chapter 19. Relativity and Black Holes
  • Chapter 20. Structure of the Universe
  • Chapter 21. Einstein-Friedmann Cosmology
• Part V. Modern Cosmology
  • Chapter 22. The Quantum Revolution
  • Chapter 23. The Early Universe
  • Chapter 24. Summary of the Foundations of Cosmological Thought

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Physics & Astronomy Department, George Mason University
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