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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2016 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 4 Lecture 1 Computational physics I: N-body problem Lab 1: self-taught Unix intro
January 6 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics  
January 11 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I. Lab 2: Gnuplot, gcc, gfortran
January 13 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.  
January 20 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation  
January 25 Lecture 6 Virial theorem and Jeans theorem Lab 3: OpenDX, N-body code
January 27 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model  
February 1 Lecture 8 Aarseth's Nbody code Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 3 Lecture 9 Discussion of Assignment II  
February 8 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 5: Assignment 3
February 10 Lecture 11 Galaxy collision model (Toomre & Toomre)  
February 17 GPU Tutorial GPU computing: CUDA tutorial  
February 22 Lecture 12 Milky Way Lab 6: Galaxy software
February 24 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project and Tree code  
February 29 Lecture 14 Tree code I. Lab 7: GPU computing
March 2 Lecture 15 Tree code II. Gyrfalcon algorithm  
March 7 Lecture 16 Gyrfalcon code/Midterm presentations start Lab 8: Presentations cont.
March 9 Lecture 17 Overview of Physics 142/242; project discussion  
March 18 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final project with team presentations