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This is the second course in a two-semester sequence on astrophysics.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
333 years, 3 months
Units & Quizzes
12
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Topics include galactic dynamics, groups and clusters on galaxies, phenomenological cosmology, Newtonian cosmology, Roberston-Walker models, and galaxy formation.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction: What is a Galaxy? Unlimited
- How Do You Build a Galaxy? Unlimited
- How are Galaxies Described? Unlimited
- Gravitational Potentials: General Results Unlimited
- Interesting and Special Cases Unlimited
- Orbits in Spherical Potentials and Integrals Unlimited
- Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials Epicyclic Approximation Unlimited
- Equilibria of Stellar Systems Unlimited
- Boltzmann Equation Unlimited
- Jeans’ Equations in Spherical Coordinates Unlimited
- Jeans’ Equations Applied Unlimited
- Stability: Jeans Mass and Spiral Structure Unlimited
