NEW COURSE:
PHYS 175T Physical Cosmology and Galaxies
To be offered 2019 Fall semester

Instructor: Professor Ringwald
E-mail: ringwald[at]csufresno.edu and replace [at] with @
Phone: (559) 278-8426
Office: McLane Hall 11, in the new J wing (Building J).

Course description: (3 credits). Prerequisites: PHYS 4A, PHYS 4B, and PHYS 4C. The astronomical distance scale. Hubble's law. Geometrical cosmology: the Robertson-Walker metric. Big Bang thermodynamics: the cosmic background radiation. Nucleosynthesis, baryogenesis, inflation. The large-scale structure of the Universe. Galaxy formation and evolution. Normal and active galaxies. Dark matter, dark energy.

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