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