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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2012 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 6 Lecture 1 Computational physics I: N-body problem Lab 1: OS X and Unix
January 8 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics  
January 13 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I. Lab 2: Gnuplot, gcc, gfortran
January 15 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.  
January 22 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation  
January 27 Lecture 6 Virial theorem and Jeans theorem Lab 3: OpenDX, N-body code
January 29 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model  
February 3 Lecture 8 Aarseth's Nbody code Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 5 Lecture 9 Discussion of Assignment II  
February 10 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 5: Assignment 3
February 12 Lecture 11 Galaxy collision model (Toomre & Toomre)  
February 19 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling II: Milky way galaxy  
February 24 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project and Tree code Lab 6: Galaxy software
February 26 Lecture 14 Tree code and Gyrfalcon algorithm  
March 3 Lecture 15 GPU computing Lab 7: GPU computing
March 5 Lecture 16 GPU computing  
March 10 Lecture 17 Gyrfalcon code/Midterm presentations start Lab 8: Presentations cont.
March 12 Lecture 18 Final project and overview of Physics 142/242  
March 21 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final project with team presentations