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Undergraduate Course: Advanced Cosmology (PHYS11035)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Physics and Astronomy CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is intended to present the current understanding of some of the main topics in cosmology, at a sufficiently high level that it allows a contact with the research literature. The focus will be on the development of structure in the universe, and how this can be related to cosmological initial conditions and exotic physical processes that operate at early times and energies. The course will be self-contained, but builds on the material covered in Cosmology; prior success at this course is STRONGLY recommended. Students should be aware that this is an advanced course and those with little or no previous experience in cosmology are strongly advised to discuss whether it is appropriate to enrol with their Personal Tutor. Familiarity with General Relativity will be an advantage.

Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Cosmology (PHYS10101) AND General Relativity (PHYS11010)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that Students have passed Cosmology.
Students should be aware that this is an advanced course and those with little or no previous experience of cosmology are strongly advised to discuss whether it is appropriate to enrol with their Personal Tutor
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 14, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 58 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Degree Examination, 100%
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Be able to qualitatively describe the theoretical basis of and the principal observational evidence for the standard cosmological model.
  2. Be able to derive kinematical quantities and properties of light travel within an expanding Universe.
  3. Be able to compute the relic abundance of elementary particles under a range of physical circumstances.
  4. Understand the role of scalar fields in driving cosmological inflation and compute observational outcomes of simple models.
  5. Be able to describe, with some mathematical content, the evolution of density perturbations and their relation to cosmic microwave background anisotropies.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsAdCos
Contacts
Course organiserProf Avery Meiksin
Tel: (0131) 668 8355
Email: A.Meiksin@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Stephanie Blakey
Tel: (0131 6)68 8261
Email: steph.blakey@ed.ac.uk
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