UNSW Handbook Course - Cosmology and Instellar medium medium

Cosmology and Instellar medium medium - PHYS3170


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Physics
	Contact: Webb,John Kelvin
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Pre-requisite/s: PHYS2040
	Offered: Semester 2 2005
	Fee Band:

Description

The interstellar Medium; Radiative Transfer; local thermodynamic equilibrium, ionization and recombination; emission lines; dynamics; shock waves; HII reigons; supernova remanants. The expanding universe; newtonian cosmology; the cosmologicall parameters; problems with the standard Big Bang; inflation, cosmic microwave background radiation.
Note: Offered in odd years only.

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