Class: Galactic Astronomy
Semester: Fall, 2015
Project Goals:
1) Build you own N-body simulator.
2) Run a simulation with a large number of point masses, or “stars”, in an initially uniform distribution over a spherical volume, let the simulation evolve to convergence.
3) Compare simulations carried out with different initial parameters for the stars, this might include stars of different masses - perhaps following some predefined mass function, or some initial velocities for the stars.
4) Compare simulations where the stars initially have no net angular momentum, to simulations where the system of stars, as a whole, has significant angular momentum.
A quote from Prof. Lepine: "I would be really really impressed if you can do this for more than 10^5 particles" which means that this is our REAL goal!
Semester: Fall, 2015
Project Goals:
1) Build you own N-body simulator.
2) Run a simulation with a large number of point masses, or “stars”, in an initially uniform distribution over a spherical volume, let the simulation evolve to convergence.
3) Compare simulations carried out with different initial parameters for the stars, this might include stars of different masses - perhaps following some predefined mass function, or some initial velocities for the stars.
4) Compare simulations where the stars initially have no net angular momentum, to simulations where the system of stars, as a whole, has significant angular momentum.
A quote from Prof. Lepine: "I would be really really impressed if you can do this for more than 10^5 particles" which means that this is our REAL goal!
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