From Newton's Laws to the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation
Physics Education
2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This 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.
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@article{arxiv.physics/9806004,
title = {From Newton's Laws to the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation},
author = {John W. Norbury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9806004},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure