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October 12, 2022
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Description
This is the second course in a two-semester sequence on astrophysics.
Topics include galactic dynamics, groups and clusters on galaxies, phenomenological cosmology, Newtonian cosmology, Roberston-Walker models, and galaxy formation.
Course Curriculum
- 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
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