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Syllabus for Physics 240

We will spend roughly one week on each of the following topics.

  1. The Milky Way and Galaxies
  2. Groups of Galaxies
  3. Monsters in the Sky: Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
  4. Gravitational Lensing
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)

    The midterm will fall in here somewhere

  6. The Extragalactic Distance Scale
  7. Relics from the Past
  8. The Big Bang Theory
  9. Cosmological Models and the Future of the Universe
  10. Current Cosmological Surveys

  11. 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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