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8.286 Lecture 4

September 17, 2018

THE KINEMATICS

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HOMOGENEOUS EXPANDING

UNIVERSE

Hubble's Law

v = Hr .

Here

v ≡ recession velocity ,

H ≡ Hubble expansion rate ,

and

r ≡ distance to galaxy .

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The Parsec

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Hubble's Original Data

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Hubble-Humason Data, 1931

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Supernovae 1a, 2002

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