NEW COURSE:
PHYS 175T Galaxies and Cosmology
To be offered 2011 Spring semester

Instructor: Dr. Ringwald
E-mail: ringwald@csufresno.edu
Phone: (559) 278-8426
Office: McLane Hall 11, in the new J wing (Building J).

Course description: (3 credits). Prerequisite: PHYS 4C. The astronomical distance scale. Hubble's law. 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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