Astronomy

Introduction to Cosmology Barbara Ryden Contents Preface v 1 Introduction 1 2 Fundamental Observations 7 2.1 Dark night sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2 Isotropy and homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 Redshift proportional to distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.4 Types of particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.5 Cosmic microwave background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3 Newton Versus Ei...