[Coursera] Galaxies and Cosmology torrent

== Course Details ==

* Instructor: S. George Djorgovski from Caltech
* Workload: 83 lecture videos, which may be 20 to 30 minutes in length
* Taught In: English
* Subtitles Available In: English


== About the Course ==

This class is an introduction to the modern extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, i.e., the part of astrophysics that deals with the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole, and its major constituents: dark matter, dark energy, galaxies, quasars, large-scale structure, and intergalactic gas. It will cover the subjects including: relativistic cosmological models and their parameters, extragalactic distance scale, cosmological tests, composition of the universe, dark matter, and dark energy; the hot big bang, cosmic nucleosynthesis, recombination, and cosmic microwave background; formation and evolution of structure in the universe; galaxy clusters, large-scale structure and its evolution; galaxies, their properties and fundamental correlations; formation and evolution of galaxies; star formation history of the universe; quasars and other active galactic nuclei, and their evolution; structure and evolution of the intergalactic medium; diffuse extragalactic backgrounds; the first stars, galaxies, and the reionization era. It corresponds to the Ay 21 class taught at Caltech.

== Recommended Background ==

This class assumes at a minimum a prior knowledge of astronomy at a good mid-undergraduate level (e.g., “Astro 101” for science majors, not “Astro 1” for poets), knowledge of physics at a comparable level, and math at a level of calculus or higher. A substantive Wikipedia article is about at the right level.

== Suggested Readings ==

The class, including the assigned readings, is designed to be self-contained, the following books would be useful for students desiring to acquire a deeper and more substantive knowledge of the subject:

- Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction , by P. Schneider /included in torrent/
- Introduction to Cosmology by B. Ryden. /included in torrent/
- Cosmology: The Science of the Universe by E. Harrison, Cambridge U. Press, ISBN-13: 978-0521661485 /not included in torrent/

These are also illustrative of the anticipated level of the class.