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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2012 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 7 Lecture 1 Computational physics I: N-body problem Lab 1: OS X and Unix
January 9 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics  
January 14 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I. Lab 2: Gnuplot, gcc, gfortran
January 16 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.  
January 23 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation  
January 28 Lecture 6 Virial theorem and Jeans theorem Lab 3: OpenDX, N-body code
January 30 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model  
February 4 Lecture 8 Aarseth's Nbody code Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 6 Lecture 9 Discussion of Assignment II  
February 11 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 5: Assignment 3
February 13 Lecture 11 Galaxy collision model (Toomre & Toomre)  
February 20 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling II: Milky way galaxy  
February 25 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project Lab 6: Galaxy software
February 27 Lecture 14 Tree code algorithm I  
March 4 Lecture 15 Tree code algorithm II Lab 7: Tree code
March 6 Lecture 16 Gyrfalcon algorithm  
March 11 Lecture 17 Final project and overview of Physics 142/242 Lab 8: Gyrfalcon code
March 13 Lecture 18 Midterm team presentations  
March 21 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Final project presentations