Astro 303 - Spring 2012

• Introduction
• Mar. 27 and more Overview of Milky Way
• Mar. 29 and more Rotation of Milky Way. Oort constants
• Apr. 3 Properties of interstellar medium. Dust.
• Apr. 5 and more Processes in ionized nebulae. Ionization equilibrium.
• Apr. 10 Thermal equilibrium.
• Apr. 12 Measuring parameters of nebulae.
• Apr. 17-19 Dynamics of nebulae. Shocks.
• Apr. 24 Luminosity and mass functions. Bahcall-Soneira model.
• Apr. 26 Population synthesis and evolutionary models
• May 1 (morning) Chemical evolution.
• May 1 (afternoon) Introduction to stellar dynamics
• May 8 Integrals of the motion
• May 10 Boltzmann eqn. Isothermal sphere.
• May 15 Jeans Equations. Models with spherical symmetry
• May 17 Axisymmetric models. Mestel disk.
• May 22 Vertical structure in disk. Asymmetric drift.
• May 24 Tides
• May 29 and more Epicycles. Kinematic density waves.
• May 31 Stability of disks

Problem Sets

1. Due Apr 5
2. Due Apr 12
3. Due Apr 19
4. Due Apr 26
5. Due May 15
6. Due May 22
7. Due May 29