Overview of Observational Cosmology: Zeroth Order Picture

• Cosmography: large-scale matter distribution
  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS): the movies
    2dF redshift survey
• Cosmological Principle
• Cosmic kinematics: galaxy motions
  • a collection of spectra
  • Edwin Hubble's discovery paper
  • Update: modern plot of results from Hubble (the telescope) Key Project
• Hubble's Law
  • pattern Hubble flow

Cosmodynamics: Implications of Hubble and Cosmo Principle

• cosmic expansion
• expansion quantified: cosmic scale factor