The calendar below provides information on the course’s lecture (L), and exam (E) sessions.
| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 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 |
