13 General Introduction
14 Introduction to Big Bang Cosmology

14.1 FriedmannñRobertsonñWalker universes
14.2 The expansion of the universe
14.3 The matter and energy content of the universe
14.4 Mechanical analogy
14.5 Thermodynamical analogy
14.6 Brief thermal history of the universe
14.7 Primordial nucleosynthesis and light element abundance
14.8 Neutrino decoupling
14.9 Matter-radiation equality
14.10 Recombination and photon decoupling
14.11 The microwave background
14.12 Large-scale structure formation

15.1 The rate of expansion H₀
15.2 Gravitational lensing
15.3 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
15.4 Cepheid variability
15.5 The matter content Q_M
15.6 Luminous matter
15.7 Rotation curves of spiral galaxies
15.8 Microlensing
15.9 Virial theorem and large scale motion
15.10 Baryon fraction in clusters
15.11 Structure formation and the matter power spectrum
15.12 Cluster abundance and evolution
15.13 Summary of the matter content
15.14 Massive neutrinos
15.15 Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
15.16 The cosmological constant Q_A
15.17 The spatial curvature Q_K
15.18 The age of the universe t₀

16.1 Shortcomings of Big Bang Cosmology
16.2 The Flatness Problem
16.3 The Homogeneity Problem .
16.4 Cosmological Inflation
16.5 Homogeneous scalar field dynamics
16.6 The origin of density perturbations
16.7 The anisotropies of the microwave background
16.8 Acoustic oscillations in the plasma
16.9 The Sachs-Wolfe effect
16.10 The consistency relation
16.11 The acoustic peaks
16.12 The new microwave anisotropy satellites, MAP and Planck
16.13 From metric perturbations to large scale structure
16.14 The galaxy power spectrum
16.15 The new redshift catalogs, 2dF and Sloan Digital Sky Survey