Part II Experimental and Theoretical Physics

Astrophysics

Questions about the course?

Email me: Steve Gull

Errata

The syllabus is here: syllabus

Handout1:  in .pdf  format handoutl.pdf; in .ps format handoutl.ps

Handouts:  in .pdf  format handout10.pdf handout11.pdf

I will add more handouts in electronic form when available.

Examples Sheet 1:  in .pdf  format examples1.pdf in .ps format examples1.ps

Examples Sheet 2:  in .pdf  format examples2.pdf in .ps format examples2.ps

Examples Sheet 3:  in .pdf  format examples3.pdf in .ps format examples3.ps

Examples Sheet 4:  in .pdf  format examples4.pdf in .ps format examples4.ps

Answers 1:  in .pdf  format answers1.pdf in .ps format answers1.ps

Answers 2:  in .pdf  format answers2.pdf in .ps format answers2.ps

Answers 3:  in .pdf  format answers3.pdf in .ps format answers3.ps

Answers 3:  in .pdf  format answers4.pdf in .ps format answers4.ps

Overheads

In .ps format overheads1.ps  overheads2.ps overheads3.ps  overheads4.ps

In .pdf format: overheads1.pdf overheads2.pdf overheads3.pdf overheads4.pdf

Prof. Lasenby's overheads :lecture3.pdf lecture4.pdf lecture5.pdf lecture6.pdf lecture7.pdf lecture8.pdf lecture9.pdf lecture10.pdf lecture11.pdf                 

Summary sheets: in .pdf  format summary.pdf, in .ps format summary.ps 

lecture 1 slides lecture 2 slides lecture 12 slides lecture 13 slides  lecture 14 slides  lecture 15 slides lecture16 slides lecture17 slides lecture18 slides

 lecture19 slides  lecture20 slides  lecture21 slides  lecture22 slides

Nothing below here is examinable

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Telescopes and space missions

 Keck observatory Gaia-mission  chandra x-ray mission Hubble space telescope WMAPMission: swift satellite 

Solar System

fireball   Lunation venus phobos deimos jupiter uranus flyby neptune small planets Asteroids Pluto and Charon

Nearby stars

Albireo (beta Cygni) Double stars  Garnet star

Star formation, HII regions

galactic centre Horsehead nebula   Orion nebula   Protoplanetary disc  ic2944globules_hst

ngc3132 ngc6826  etacarinae

Supernova remnants

Crab_xrayopt  Crab_opt CasA_opt crab chandra hubble

ic443 sn1987a

Galactic Centre

infrared wide field radio stellar motions  Radio centre VLBA centre mass function

Extragalactic

LMC   M31 in Andromeda

Radio galaxies

Double radio galaxies: Alan Bridle's page

N-body simulations and computational fluid dynamics

N-body movie

stellar impact1 stellar impact2

gas rich collision andromeda and us edge-on merger prograde/retrograde collision

cluster evolution

 light jet  section of supernova

Dr. Chris Mihos - Galaxy Collisions and Mergers 

Geophysics

Black smokers: SCsmoker1

Volcano steam ring

Other Links:

Eric Idle "The Galaxy Song'': Galaxy song (mp3)  lyrics Critique

Alexander Calandra   The Barometer Story

Flanders and Swann "Entropy": entropy

Tom Lehrer "The elements": elements