Cosmology

PART I: Cosmological Methods; The Relativistic Universe; The Friedmann Models; Alternative Cosmologies: Past and Present; Observational Properties of the Universe. PART II: Evolution of the Big Bang Model; Physical Properties of the Hot Big Bang; The Big Bang and Quantum Gravity; Phase Transitions and Inflation; The Hadron and Lepton Eras; The Plasma Era. PART III: Structure Formation by Gravitational Instability; Introduction to Jeans; Jeans Instability in Friedmann Models; The Origin of Structure I: Baryons Only; The Origin of Structure II: Non-Baryonic Matter; Cosmological Perturbations; Non-Linear Evolution of Perturbations. PART IV: Observational Test; Statistics of Galaxy Clustering; The Cosmic Microwave Background; Peculiar Motions of Galaxies; The Post-Recombination Universe.