Galaxies: Structure, Dynamics, and Evolution (Fall 2016)

ASSUMED BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

We expect you to know the material from the Bachelor course on Galaxies given at Leiden. Lectures from the Bachelor course can be found here.

You are particularly encouraged to become familiar with material from the following lectures from the Bachelor course (since it is likely the least familiar to you):

Gravitational Forces and Potentials
Stellar Dynamics
Orbits
Collisionless Boltzmann Equation
Jeans Equations

You also encouraged to look at the material from these lectures as well:

Local Universe I
Local Universe II