Astronomy 507
Lecture 10, Feb. 12
Spring 2020
Lecture Notes:
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What about gravity?
equivalence principle, Galileo
experiment
rocket Gedankenexperiment
strong lensing:
1919 eclipse
;
galaxies
gravitational redshift:
Pound & Rebka (1960)
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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