This is the website of the Part III cosmology course (24 lectures) covering the unperturbed universe (Hiranya Peiris), thermal history (Anne Davis), and the perturbed universe (Anthony Challinor).

Lecture notes and examples sheets will appear here. Please send any comments or corrections to the lecture notes to Hiranya Peiris.

Lecture notes in PDF format:

[Course notes on unperturbed universe]

[Course notes on thermal history]

[Course notes on perturbed universe]

Examples Sheets in PDF format:

[Examples 1] [Examples 2]

[Examples 3]

[Examples 4]

Introductory Reading  

Liddle, A. An Introduction to Modern Cosmology. Wiley (2003)

Complementary Reading

Dodelson, S. Modern Cosmology. Academic Press (2003)

Carroll, S.M. Spacetime and Geometry. Addison-Wesley  (2004)

Liddle, A.R. and Lyth, D.H. Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure. Cambridge (2000)

Kolb, E.W. and Turner, M.S. The Early Universe. Addison-Wesley (1990)

Weinberg, S., Gravitation and Cosmology. Wiley (1972)

Peacock, J.A., Cosmological Physics. Cambridge (2000)

Mukhanov, V., Physical Foundations of Cosmology. Cambridge (2005)