Astronomy 507
Lecture 9, Feb. 10
Spring 2014
Lecture Notes:
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General Relativity
curved spacetime
distances, times, areas, volumes
Relativistic Cosmology
The Structure of Cosmological Spacetime
cosmological principle: maximal symmetry
spaces of constant curvature
coordinates:
2-sphere
geometry of the universe
Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker
cosmic line element
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