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  ASTR 5770 Cosmology Fall 2014: Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1 The Universe (Ch 10) due in class Wed Sep 10.
• Problem Set 2 Hubble diagram (Ch 10) due in class Wed Sep 17.
  Supernova data downloadable from http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=J/A+A/568/A22/tablef3
• Problem Set 3 Geodesics in a FLRW universe (Ch 10) due in class Wed Oct 1.
• Problem Set 4 Matter-Radiation Equality (Ch 29) due in class Wed Oct 8.
  Planck parameters available at http://wiki.cosmos.esa.int/planckpla/index.php/Cosmological_Parameters
• Problem Set 5 Behavior of radiation (Ch 29) due in class Wed Oct 15.
• Problem Set 6 Program the simplest set of cosmological assumptions (Ch 29) due in class Wed Oct 22.
  My solution (Mathematica notebook): cmb_simple.nb.
• Problem Set 7 Matter power spectrum (Ch 29) due in class Wed Oct 29.
  Power spectrum data downloadable from https://www.sdss3.org/science/boss_publications.php
• Problem Set 8 Hydrodynamic/Boltzmann cosmological code (Ch 30/31) due in class Wed Nov 12.
  My solution (Mathematica notebook): cmb_boltzmann.nb.
• Problem Set 9 CMB power spectrum (Ch 32) due in class Wed Nov 19.
  My solution (Mathematica notebook): cmb.nb.

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