302743 (v.2) Astrophysics 402
| Area: | Department of Applied Physics |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Other Requisite(s): | Admission: to the Physics honours program
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| Syllabus: | Celestial Mechanics - two body system, three body system, applications to the solar system, N-body systems, general perturbations, gravitational encounters, sphere of influence, applications to globular clusters and galaxies. Supernovae and gravitationallensing - 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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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will be able to understand some important concepts in modern astrophysics, in particular celestial mechanics, few and many-particle astrophysics, galaxies and cosmology. They will have gained an in-depth understanding of one topic of astrophysical interest. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
| Unit Texts: | No prescribed reference. |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Assignments 45%. Project 30%. Final Examination 25%. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
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