John W Norbury 1998 Eur. J. Phys. 19 143 doi:10.1088/0143-0807/19/2/007
John W Norbury
Show affiliationsThis is a pedagogical paper which explains some ideas in cosmology at a level accessible to undergraduate students. It does not use general relativity, but uses the ideas of Newtonian cosmology worked out by Milne and McCrea. The cosmological constant is also introduced within a Newtonian framework. Following standard quantization procedures the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the minisuperspace approximation is derived for empty and non-empty universes.
98.80.Jk Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology
Issue 2 (March 1998)
Received 26 June 1997, in final form 17 November 1997
John W Norbury 1998 Eur. J. Phys. 19 143
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