| L1 |
Introduction: What is a Galaxy? |
| L2 |
How Do You Build a Galaxy? |
| L3 |
How are Galaxies Described? |
| L4 |
Gravitational Potentials: General Results |
| L5 |
Interesting and Special Cases |
| L6 |
Orbits in Spherical Potentials and Integrals |
| L7 |
Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials
Epicyclic Approximation |
| L8 |
Equilibria of Stellar Systems
Boltzmann Equation |
| L9 |
Jeans' Equations in Spherical Coordinates |
| L10 |
Jeans' Equations Applied
Jeans' Theorem |
| L11 |
Stability: Jeans Mass and Spiral Structure |
| L12 |
Gravitational Mirages (aka lenses) via Fermat's Principle |
| L13 |
Applied Gravitational Lensing |
| L14 |
Weak Lensing |
| L15 |
Clusters of Galaxies |
| L16 |
Physics in Clusters of Galaxies |
| L17 |
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect |
| L18 |
Cosmology: Recent History and a Serviceable Newtonian Model |
| L19 |
The Spherical Model |
| E1 |
In-class Exam |
| L20 |
Recombination |
| L21 |
From Fields to Objects: The Press-Schecter Recipe |
| L22 |
Adding GR to Cosmology |
| L23 |
Distances in Cosmology |
| L24 |
Cosmological Parameters |
| L25 |
Growing Modes in Expanding Universes: Jeans Redux |
| L26 |
Growing Modes: Radiation Dominated and Non-baryonic Universes |
| L27 |
Statistical Measures of Cosmic Structure |
| L28 |
The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Fluctuations |
| L29 |
Cosmological Helium Production |
| L30 |
Details of Helium Production |
| L31 |
Absorbers along Quasar Lines of Sight |
| L32 |
Active Galactic Nuclei |
| L33 |
The Black Hole Paradigm for AGN |
| L34 |
Accretion Disks |
| L35 |
Superluminality and Jets |
| L36 |
Extragalactic Sky Brightness: Present and Past Superposed |
| L37 |
Bonus Lecture #1 |
| L38 |
Bonus Lecture #2 |
| E2 |
Three-hour Final Exam |