PY 228: STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS

SYLLABUS FOR SPRING '95



Date   Chapters    Read Pages     Topics
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 1/12                             Class Introduction, Outline course
 1/17                             History of Astronomy
 1/19     2          5-25         Stellar Properties, physics of photons
 1/24     3          27-47        Spectral Lines
 1/26     4          49-82        Telescopes (light reading)
 1/31     5          85-108       Fundamental Properties of Stars
 2/2      5          85-108       Gravity, Binary Stars, Orbits
 2/7      6          110-113      Solar Structure, Hydrostatic Equilibrium
 2/9      6          113-128      Exterior of Sun, Radiative Transfer
 2/14     6          128-134      Solar Cycle, Review for Midterm
 2/16       Midterm #1
 2/21     8          176-187      Star Formation, Jeans Mass, Virial Theorem
 2/23     8          187-198      Protostellar Objects, Evolution to MS
         15          335-353      Star formation out of interstellar medium
 2/28     9          199-215      Stellar Nucleosynthesis
 3/2      9          215-227      Stellar Structure, Models, Solar Neutrinos
 3/7     10          229-239      Stellar Evolution - low mass stars
         13          297-300      Stellar populations, cluster evolution
 3/9     10          240-246      White Dwarfs, electron degeneracy
 3/14-3/16  Spring Break
 3/21    11          248-259      Supernovae, Neutron stars, radio pulsars
 3/23    11          260-270      Radio pulsars
 3/28    12          272-285      Interacting binary stars
 3/30       Midterm #2
 4/4     16          355-373      Milky Way, spiral structure, halo, rotation
 4/6     17          375-397      Structure of Galaxies, Rotation curves
 4/11    18          401-418      Hubble Expansion, large scale structure
 4/13    19          419-438      Active Galactic Nuclei
 4/18    20          440-450      Cosmology
 4/20    20          450-458      Cosmology meets Einstein
 4/25    21          460-475      Big Bang, CMB, nucleosynthesis
 4/27    21          475-488      Symmetry Breaking, Inflation, ...
 5/2        Final Exam - 8am in Cox 209