OCR A-level Physics A H556 · 5.5.3(m)
Estimating the age of the universe
- Code
- 5.5.3(m)
- In
- 5.5.3 Cosmology
- Topic
- 5 Newtonian world and astrophysics
- Course
- A-level Physics A H556
- Board
- OCR
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Points in 5.5.3 Cosmology
- 5.5.3(a) Astronomical units, light-years and parsecs
- 5.5.3(b) Stellar parallax
- 5.5.3(c) Parallax and distance in parsecs
- 5.5.3(d) The Cosmological principle
- 5.5.3(e) Doppler effect for electromagnetic radiation
- 5.5.3(f) The Doppler equation
- 5.5.3(g) Hubble's law
- 5.5.3(h) Red shift and the expanding universe
- 5.5.3(i) Units of the Hubble constant
- 5.5.3(j) The Big Bang theory
- 5.5.3(k) Microwave background evidence for the Big Bang
- 5.5.3(l) Big Bang and expansion of space-time
- 5.5.3(m) Estimating the age of the universe
- 5.5.3(n) Evolution of the universe since the Big Bang
- 5.5.3(o) Dark energy, dark matter and ordinary matter