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302743 (v.2) Astrophysics 402
Area: | Department of Applied Physics |
Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Other Requisite(s): | Admission: to the Physics honours program
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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. |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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