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The Early Universe

Prof. Alan Guth · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

The Early Universe provides an introduction to modern cosmology. The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology.

In the News

For more about Professor Guth’s work, listen to this interview from WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio news station.

You may also be interested in this MIT Alumni Association Podcast Inflationary Cosmology—Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? with Professor Guth.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Lecture 1: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I 1 h 11 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II 1 h 18 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity 1 h 17 min · Video
  4. Lecture 4: The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe 1 h 19 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I 1 h 19 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II 1 h 20 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III 1 h 12 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV 1 h 16 min · Video
  9. Lecture 9: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V 1 h 9 min · Video
  10. Lecture 10: Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces 1 h 13 min · Video
  11. Lecture 11: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes 1 h 17 min · Video
  12. Lecture 12: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric 1 h 15 min · Video
  13. Lecture 13: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation 1 h 16 min · Video
  14. Lecture 14: The Geodesic Equation 1 h 17 min · Video
  15. Lecture 15: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I 1 h 22 min · Video
  16. Lecture 16: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II 1 h 18 min · Video
  17. Lecture 17: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III 1 h 9 min · Video
  18. Lecture 18: Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I 1 h 17 min · Video
  19. Lecture 19: The Cosmological Constant, Part II 1 h 8 min · Video
  20. Lecture 20: Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density 1 h 18 min · Video
  21. Lecture 21: Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model 1 h 12 min · Video
  22. Lecture 22: The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem 1 h 25 min · Video
  23. Lecture 23: Inflation 1 h 17 min · Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Alan Guth
Term
Fall 2013
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Alan Guth. The Early Universe. Fall 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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