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Astrofysikaliska dynamiska processer
Starting: March 13, 2003
Ångström Laboratory, Room 63416
teachers: Susanne Höfner, Bengt Gustafsson, Michelle Mizuno-Wiedner
Schedule
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| date | time | teacher | session |
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| 13/3 | 10-12 | SH | lecture 1: Introduction; kinetic theory |
| 17/3 | 10-12 | MM | tutorial * |
| 20/3 | 10-12 | SH | lecture 2: Kinetic theory; fluid dynamics |
| 24/3 | 10-12 | SH | lecture 3: Fluid dynamics and shocks |
| 27/3 | 10-12 | SH | lecture 4: Stellar winds |
| 31/3 | 10-12 | SH | lecture 5: Supernova remnants and planetary nebulae |
| 02/4 | 14-16 | BG | lecture 6: Convection |
| 07/4 | 10-12 | MM | tutorial * |
| 10/4 | 10-12 | MM | lecture 7: Jeans instability |
| 14/4 | 10-12 | MM | tutorial * |
| 28/4 | 10-12 | MM/BG | lecture 8:
Virial theorem
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| 05/5 | 10-12 | MM | tutorial* |
| 08/5 | 10-12 | BG | lecture 9: Dynamics of disk galaxies |
| 12/5 | 10-12 | MM/BG | tutorial |
| 15/5 | 10-12 | BG | lecture 10: Formation of spiral structure |
| 20/5 | 16-18 | BG/MM | lecture 11:
Formation of spiral structure (cont.);
timescales in dynamical evolution
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| 26/5 | 10-12 | BG/MM | Review session
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*combined with
Astrofysikaliska strålningsprocesser
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Final exam: June 2 & 5, 2003
Literature
- Lecture notes (will be handed out during the course)
- Selected sections from different textbooks, such as:
- Scheffler, H. & Elsässer, H. 1987.
Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
pp. 365-413.
- Binney, J. & Tremaine, S. 1987.
Galactic Dynamics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Chapter 8, "Kinetic Theory.
- Research articles as needed
- For example,
The Dynamics of Disk-Shaped Galaxies
(Lin, C. C. 1967, ARA&A 5, 453)
- A good place to search for articles is the abstract
service of NASA's
Astrophysics Data System. If you cannot give the name of
an author, type your subject under "Title words" or "Abstract
words" (in quotation marks if it is more than one word). You
will probably get a list with far too many articles. One way
to narrow the search is to limit it to one journal like ARA&A
or A&ARv. Click on the box for "Selected publications" and
enter the journal's abbreviation there.
Course requirements
- Active participation (see details
here)
- Problem set and in-class problems
- Final exam
Contact
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