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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2010 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 4 Lecture 1 Computational physics I: N-body problem  
January 6 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics  
January 11 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I. Lab 1: Linux and Visualization
January 13 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.  
January 20 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation  
January 25 Lecture 6 Aarseth's N-body algorithm and code Lab 2: OpenDX
January 27 Lecture 7 Discussion of Assignment 2  
February 1 Lecture 8 Virial theorem and Jeans theorem Lab 3: Aarseth's N-body code
February 3 Lecture 9 Plummer's spherical model  
February 8 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 4: Assignment 3
February 10 Lecture 11 Galaxy collision model (Toomre & Toomre)  
February 17 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling II: Milky way galaxy  
February 22 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project Lab 5: Galaxy software
February 24 Lecture 14 Tree code algorithm I  
March 1 Lecture 15 Tree code algorithm II Lab 6: Tree code
March 3 Lecture 16 Gyrfalcon algorithm  
March 8 Lecture 17 Midterm presentations Lab 7: Gyrfalcon code
March 10 Lecture 18 Final project and overview of Physics 142/242  
March 19 9:00 am - noon Final project presentations