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The universe: size, origins, contents
Introduction
Light revisited
The inverse-square law
The Doppler effect
Emission and absorption lines
A happy marriage
Cosmic distance ladder
Step 1: distances up to 100
l.y.
Step 2: distances up to 300,000
l.y.
Step 3: distances up to 13,000,000
l.y.
Step 4: distances up to 1,000,000,000
l.y.
Step 5: distances beyond 1,000,000,000
l.y.
The relativistic universe
The expanding universe
And now what?
The Microwave Background Radiation
Nucleosynthesis
At the cutting edge
Dark matter
Neutrinos
The cosmological constant
Homogeneity and isotropy
Inflation
Summary
Jose Wudka
9/24/1998
