5327 (v.4) Physics 508

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Celestial Mechanics Duration - Two body systems, Three body systems, Applications to the Solar System, N-body systems, General perturbations, Gravitational encounters, Sphere of influence, Applications to globular clusters and galaxies. Supernovae and Gravitational Lensing - Type I and Type II SN, Macro and microlensing. Astrophysics of Galaxies - Our galaxy. Orbits of stars. The local group. Spiral galaxies. Elliptical galaxies. Cosmology and General Relativity - Hubbles law. General Relativity. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models.
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