Physics A-Level
Dark energy and accelerated expansion
What Dark energy and accelerated expansion means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Dark energy and accelerated expansion
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Reference: OCR
The component associated with the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Topics that use Dark energy and accelerated expansion
- Cosmology (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Age of the universe
- Astronomical distance units
- Baseline
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Big Bang theory
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Cosmological redshift
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