ASTR 224. Astrophysical Dynamics (4 units)
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Description
Surveys dynamical processes in astrophysical systems on scales ranging from planets to cosmology, including stability and evolution of planetary orbits, scattering processes and the few-body problem, processes in stellar clusters with smooth and cusped potentials, axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric potentials, angle-action formalism, bar and spiral structure formation, tidal streams, galactic collisions, interactions between matter and dark matter, and evolution of large-scale structure. Renumbered from PHYA 233. Students may not receive credit for both ASTR 224 and PHYA 233.
Prerequisite courses
ASTR 224 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have ASTR 224 as a prerequisite.