| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Introduction: What is a Galaxy? | (PDF) |
| L2 | How Do You Build a Galaxy? | (PDF) |
| L3 | How are Galaxies Described? | (PDF) |
| L4 | Gravitational Potentials: General Results | (PDF) |
| L5 | Interesting and Special Cases | (PDF) |
| L6 | Orbits in Spherical Potentials and Integrals | (PDF) |
| L7 | Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials Epicyclic Approximation | (PDF) |
| L8 | Equilibria of Stellar Systems Boltzmann Equation | (PDF) (PDF) |
| L9 | Jeans' Equations in Spherical Coordinates | (PDF) |
| L10 | Jeans' Equations Applied Jeans' Theorem | (PDF) |
| L11 | Stability: Jeans Mass and Spiral Structure | (PDF) |
| L12 | Gravitational Mirages (aka lenses) via Fermat's Principle | |
| L13 | Applied Gravitational Lensing | |
| L14 | Weak Lensing | |
| L15 | Clusters of Galaxies | |
| L16 | Physics in Clusters of Galaxies | |
| L17 | The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect | |
| L18 | Cosmology: Recent History and a Serviceable Newtonian Model | |
| L19 | The Spherical Model | |
| L20 | Recombination | |
| L21 | From Fields to Objects: The Press-Schecter Recipe | |
| L22 | Adding GR to Cosmology | |
| L23 | Distances in Cosmology | |
| L24 | Cosmological Parameters | |
| L25 | Growing Modes in Expanding Universes: Jeans Redux | |
| L26 | Growing Modes: Radiation Dominated and Non-baryonic Universes | |
| L27 | Statistical Measures of Cosmic Structure | |
| L28 | The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Fluctuations | |
| L29 | Cosmological Helium Production | |
| L30 | Details of Helium Production | |
| L31 | Absorbers along Quasar Lines of Sight | |
| L32 | Active Galactic Nuclei | |
| L33 | The Black Hole Paradigm for AGN | |
| L34 | Accretion Disks | |
| L35 | Superluminality and Jets | |
| L36 | Extragalactic Sky Brightness: Present and Past Superposed | |
| L37 | Bonus Lecture #1 | |
| L38 | Bonus Lecture #2 |