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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

The lecture notes were taken in the Fall of 2001 by Jeremy Schnittman, who as a student in the subject, agreed to take notes and to format them using LaTeX. He used Professor Paul Schechter's handwritten notes in producing them. The figures were produced by Caitlin Millard during June-August 2004. Used with permission. As of the date of publication, only lecture notes for sessions 1 through 11 were available.

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L1Introduction: What is a Galaxy?(PDF)
L2How Do You Build a Galaxy?(PDF)
L3How are Galaxies Described?(PDF)
L4Gravitational Potentials: General Results(PDF)
L5Interesting and Special Cases(PDF)
L6Orbits in Spherical Potentials and Integrals(PDF)
L7Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials

Epicyclic Approximation
(PDF)
L8Equilibria of Stellar Systems

Boltzmann Equation
(PDF)

(PDF)
L9Jeans' Equations in Spherical Coordinates(PDF)
L10Jeans' Equations Applied

Jeans' Theorem
(PDF)
L11Stability: Jeans Mass and Spiral Structure(PDF)
L12Gravitational Mirages (aka lenses) via Fermat's Principle
L13Applied Gravitational Lensing
L14Weak Lensing
L15Clusters of Galaxies
L16Physics in Clusters of Galaxies
L17The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
L18Cosmology: Recent History and a Serviceable Newtonian Model
L19The Spherical Model
L20Recombination
L21From Fields to Objects: The Press-Schecter Recipe
L22Adding GR to Cosmology
L23Distances in Cosmology
L24Cosmological Parameters
L25Growing Modes in Expanding Universes: Jeans Redux
L26Growing Modes: Radiation Dominated and Non-baryonic Universes
L27Statistical Measures of Cosmic Structure
L28The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Fluctuations
L29Cosmological Helium Production
L30Details of Helium Production
L31Absorbers along Quasar Lines of Sight
L32Active Galactic Nuclei
L33The Black Hole Paradigm for AGN
L34Accretion Disks
L35Superluminality and Jets
L36Extragalactic Sky Brightness: Present and Past Superposed
L37Bonus Lecture #1
L38Bonus Lecture #2

 








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