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Chapter Contents

• Part I. Basic Phenomenology
  1. Scales
  2. Observational windows
  3. Classifications
  4. Photometry, kinematics, dark matter
  5. Basic questions, semi-empirical approach, dynamical window

• Part II. Physical Models
  6. Self-gravity and relation with plasma physics
  7. Relaxation times, absence of thermodynamical equilibrium
  8. Models
  9. Equilibrium and stability: symmetry and symmetry breaking
  10. Classical ellipsoids
  11. Introduction to dispersive waves
  12. Jeans instability

• Part III. Spiral Galaxies
  13. Orbits
  14. The basic state: vertical and horizontal equilibrium in the disk
  15. Density waves
  16. Role of gas
  17. Global spiral modes
  18. Spiral structure in galaxies
  19. Bending waves
  20. Dark matter in spiral galaxies

• Part IV. Elliptical Galaxies
  21. Orbits
  22. Stellar dynamical approach
  23. Stability
  24. Dark matter in elliptical galaxies

• Part V. In Perspective
  25. Selected aspects of formation and evolution

• Bibliography
• Index