Course News

Final Exam statistics --- Median: 63 | High Score: 79 | Low Score: 52 (80 points possible)

Thanks to everyone for making this an interesting and stimulating semester.

Course Links

Course Outline

Course Work | HW 1 | HW 2 | HW 3 | HW 4

Topics for semseter projects.

Topical Links

Cool spectrum

Galaxy Crash JavaLab by Chris Mihos. Try playing with friction & halo size.

Surface of Section JavaLab by Chris Mihos.

Nice discussion of Gravitational Potentials by Josh Barnes.

Overview of Galaxy Classification by Greg Bothun.

Nice pictures of the gas in spiral galaxies as well as the stars (towards bottom of Oosterloo's page).

Concise facts about Astronomical magnitude systems.

Movie of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Images of Local Group Galaxies.

Info on the Sagittarius Dwarf.

M31 group images from NED. Note the effects of resolution!

Useful Links

NASA's ADS (Astrophysical Data System), an excellent way to search the literature.

astro-ph e-print archive. Most astronomy papers appear here first as preprints. Caveat Emptor - most papers posted here have not yet been refereed.

e-Journals: ApJ | AJ | MNRAS | A&A | PASP

Level 5, an Extragalactic Kowledgebase at NED.

Merging galaxy simulation created for the IMAX movie Cosmic Voyage.
Warning - this is a rather large (24 Mb) MPEG movie. It may require excessive down load time.
Courtesy of Chris Mihos (CWRU).

Check out the Mihos JavaLab.
Note: most of the Applets perform better on the PCs than on the SUNs.