Lecture Notes
- Lecture 1 — 10 Jan — Intro to AST222
- Lecture 2 — 12 Jan — Our Milky Way as a Galaxy
- Lecture 3 — 14 Jan — Galactic Kinematics I - Halo,Disk
- Lecture 4 — 17 Jan — Galactic Kinematics II - MW Rotation Curve
- Lecture 5 — 19 Jan — Galactic Kinematics III - Oort, Tangent Pt.
- Lecture 6 — 21 Jan — Curtis-Shapley Debate
- Lecture 7 — 24 Jan — Elliptical Galaxies, Collisional Relaxation
- Lecture 8 — 24 Jan — Spiral Galaxies, Epicycles
- Lecture 9 — 31 Jan — Scaling Relations
- Lecture 10 — 2 Feb — Theories of Galaxy Formation
- Lecture 11 — 9 Feb — Galaxy Interactions
- Lecture 12 — 11 Feb — Active Galaxies - I
- Lecture 13 — 14 Feb — Active Galaxies - II
- Midterm study guides: Concept/Term List, 2009 Midterm w/ answers, 2010 Midterm w/ some answers
- Lecture 14 — 28 Feb — Observed Structure in the Universe
- Lecture 15 — 2 Mar — Observed Structure II
- Lecture 16 — 7 Mar — Intro to Newtonian Cosmology
- Lecture 17 — 9 Mar — Intro to Newtonian Cosmology II
- Lecture 18 — 14 Mar — Intro to Newtonian Cosmology III
- Lecture 19 — 16 Mar — Thermal History of the Universe
- Lecture 20 — 21 Mar — Relativistic Cosmology
- Lecture 21 — 23 Mar — Structure Formation
- Lecture 22 — 28 Mar — Observational Cosmology I
- Lecture 23 — 30 Mar — Observational Cosmology II
- Lecture 24 — 4 Apr— Open Questions
- Final Exam study guides: Concept/Term List, 2010 Final.