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Syllabus for Physics 240
We will spend roughly one week on each
of the following topics.
- The Milky Way and Galaxies
- Groups of Galaxies
- Monsters in the Sky: Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
- Gravitational Lensing
- Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)
The midterm will fall in here somewhere
- The Extragalactic Distance Scale
- Relics from the Past
- The Big Bang Theory
- Cosmological Models and the Future of the Universe
- Current Cosmological Surveys
- The final exam: Friday, Feb 23, 9:15 - 11:15 AM, 08-2300
Note that we may interrupt this schedule to discuss
late-breaking astronomical news.
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