8.286 Lecture Notes, Fall 2018

Lecture Notes 1: The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 2: The Kinematics of a Homogeneously Expanding Universe PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 3: The Dynamics of Newtonian Cosmology PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 4: More Dynamics of Newtonian Cosmology PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 5: Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 6: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 7: The Cosmological Constant PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 8: Problems of the Conventional (Non-Inflationary) Cosmological Model^* PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 9: The Magnetic Monopole Problem PDF 1up | PDF 2up.
Lecture Notes 10: The New Inflationary Universe PDF 1up | PDF 2up.

8.286 Complete Course Documents, Fall 2018

Complete course documents as a single PDF — Lecture Notes, Problem Sets, Quiz Review Problems, Quizzes, and Quiz Solutions (8.4 MB).

^* If you care about margins: The originally posted Lecture Notes 8 (1up) was formatted with the wrong margins. It was replaced 12/1/18 with a new version with the same one inch margins as the other documents.

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