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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 1 14C Solution by
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Differentiate the Friedmann equation and use energy conservation to obtain on the expanding branch, where . Since ,For pressureless matter, conservation gives . In terms of the specified cosmological density parameters, flatness implies , andSet and take . Then . Integrating with the Big Bang at givesFor another time origin replace by . The cosmological constant has effective density . Equality with the matter density means , soIf , the expanding solution is pure exponential de Sitter scale factor in flat slicing and there is no finite matter-density equality time or dust Big Bang; the stated hyperbolic-sine formula presumes a nonzero dust component.
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