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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2010 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 3 Lecture 1 Computational physics I: N-body problem  
January 5 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics  
January 10 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I.

Lab 1: - OS X and Unix - Visualization

January 12 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.  
January 19 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation  
January 24 Lecture 6 Aarseth's N-body algorithm and code Lab 2: OpenDX
January 26 Lecture 7 Discussion of Assignment 2  
January 31 Lecture 8 Virial theorem and Jeans theorem Lab 3: Aarseth's N-body code
February 2 Lecture 9 Plummer's spherical model  
February 7 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 4: Assignment 3
February 9 Lecture 11 Galaxy collision model (Toomre & Toomre)  
February 14 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling II: Milky way galaxy Lab 5: Galaxy software
February 16 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project  
February 23 Lecture 14 Tree code algorithm I  
February 28 Lecture 15 Tree code algorithm II Lab 6: Tree code
March 2 Lecture 16 Gyrfalcon algorithm  
March 7 Lecture 17 Final project and overview of Physics 142/242 Lab 7: Gyrfalcon code
March 9 Lecture 18 Midterm team presentations  
March 18 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final project presentations