Astronomy 5 - Cosmology and Galaxies

Lecture Notes
 
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Cosmology - Powerpoint - Milky Way flythrough movie - 2dF flythrough movie
Lecture 2 - Beginning Cosmology - Powerpoint
Lecture 3 - What the Universe is made of - Powerpoint
Lecture 4 - The lifecycles of stars - Powerpoint - movie: disk around a newly-formed star - movie: HR diagram evolution of a cluster - movie: Orion Nebula flythrough - movie: dark globules in a star-forming region
Lecture 5 - Measuring the Milky Way - Powerpoint - movie: flythrough of a globular cluster - movie: stars orbiting in a globular cluster
Lecture 6 - Weighing the Milky Way - Powerpoint - movie: rotating disk of stable gas
Lecture 7 - The Cosmic Tapestry of Galaxies - Powerpoint - movie: flythrough of the 2 Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey - movie: simulation of galaxy merger, similar to "The Mice" galaxies - movie: a longer version of "The Mice" merger - movie: merger between 2 spiral galaxies - movie: formation of a massive cluster of galaxies - movie: simulated interaction producing the Cartwheel Galaxy - movie: flythrough of galaxy merger
Lecture 8 - The Expanding Universe - Powerpoint - movie: Universe expands like a bubble - movie: bubble Universe with a redshifted photon
Lecture 9 - Active Galactic Nuclei - Powerpoint
Lecture 10 - Black Holes - Powerpoint - movie: moving toward a black hole - movie: lensing from a black hole moving past - movie: black hole jet in a spiral galaxy - movie: black hole jet in a massive elliptical galaxy
Lecture 11-12 - Energy, Heat, & Light / Cosmic Fireball Radiation - Powerpoint - movie: hydrogen bomb
Lecture 13 - General Relativity and the geometry of the Universe - Powerpoint
Lecture 14 - An accelerating Universe - Powerpoint - movie: WMAP results on the CMB
Lecture 15-16 - The Force and Particle Zoo / Quantum Mechanics - Powerpoint
Lecture 17-18 - The Unification of Forces / GUTs and the Inflationary Universe - Powerpoint
Lecture 19 - Freezeouts and Milestones - Powerpoint
Lecture 20/21 - The Origin of Structure and Galaxies - Powerpoint
Lecture 22 - the Planck Time - Powerpoint - movie: 2 Degree Field flythrough, movie: structure formation in a Milky Way sized halo (dark matter simulation), movie: structure formation in an expanding Universe, movie: structure formation in a cosmological box, movie: growth of density fluctuations (gravitational instability picture in action!)
Lecture 23 - Anthropic Cosmology - no powerpoint
 
 
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