General Prerequisites:
Course Term: Hilary
Course Lecture Information: 16 lectures
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures.
1 unit
Areas: Astro
Prequel/pre-requisite: Kinetic Theory (MT)
Lecturer: Dr John Magorrian
Method of assessment: Take-home exam in HT OR Homework completion
This a Physics course. Additional course materials such as problem sheets, homework hand in, and lecture recording can be found at the Canvas site at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068 Lectures can be accessed from this link, but if you need a direct link to lectures they can be found at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068/external_tools/496
1 unit
Areas: Astro
Prequel/pre-requisite: Kinetic Theory (MT)
Lecturer: Dr John Magorrian
Method of assessment: Take-home exam in HT OR Homework completion
This a Physics course. Additional course materials such as problem sheets, homework hand in, and lecture recording can be found at the Canvas site at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068 Lectures can be accessed from this link, but if you need a direct link to lectures they can be found at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068/external_tools/496
Learning Outcomes:
Course Synopsis:
Review of Hamiltonian mechanics. Orbit integration. Classification of orbits and integrability. Construction of angle-action variables. Hamiltonian perturbation theory. Simple examples of its application to the evolution of planetary and stellar orbits. Methods for constructing equilibrium galaxy models. Applications. Fundamentals of N-body simulation. Dynamical evolution of isolated galaxies. Interactions with companions.