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No lecture Tuesday 1 December. Self study session on Galaxy Zoo instead; follow instructions on this handout.

Please note the new (and hopefully final) lecture times and locations, applicable from Monday 26/10/09:

In addition there will be a replacement lecture at 11am on Thursday 19/11, in Newman D.

This page contains the full set of notes (gaps filled in) plus problem sheets and solutions. The notes for each lecture are uploaded a few days after the lecture is given.


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GeneralModule description
I: The Milky Way Lecture 1: Our Galaxy
Lecture 2: Star counts
Lecture 3: Gas in the Galactic disk, the Galactic centre | Galactic rotation curve handout
Lecture 4: Dark matter, Galactic ecology
Problem sheet I
Solutions to problem sheet I
II: Stellar dynamics and star clusters Lecture 5: Two- anbd three-body problems
Lecture 6: Many-body problem, virial theorem
Lecture 7: Orbits in potentials
Lecture 8: Collisionless systems
Problem sheet II
Solutions to problem sheet II
III: Galaxies Lecture 9: Galaxy classification
Lecture 10: Elliptical galaxies, rotation curves of spirals
Lecture 11: Spiral arms, orbits in spirals
Lecture 12: Quasard and AGNs
Problem sheet III
Solutions to problem sheet III
IV: Observational cosmology and large scale structure Lecture 13: Redshift and distance
Lecture 14: Cosmological models
Lecture 15: Bib Bang nucleosynthesis, inflation
Lecture 16: Large scale structure
Lecture 17: Hot and cold dark matter
Problem sheet IV
Solutions to problem sheet IV
RevisionLecture 18: revision notes
Hints and tips for summer exams January 2007
January 2008
January 2009