.pdfs of the lecture slides, in-class activities and handouts will be posted here AFTER the class meets. Note that many of these slide decks are quite sparse, since we do a number of derivations on the board.
Unit 1 – Radiation
Week 1
Wednesday September 5 – Review of Important Introductory Physics Principles
Handouts: Syllabus
Week 2
Monday September 10 – Astrometry, Parallax, and the Magnitude System
Wednesday September 12 – The Nature of Light
Week 3
Monday, September 17 – Thermal-Radiation: The Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien Laws
Wednesday, September 19 – Line Spectra
Handouts: Planck Activity
Week 4
Monday, September 24 – Atomic Structure and Radiation
Wednesday, September 26 – Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions
Unit 2 – Stars
Week 5
Monday, October 1 – Boltzmann and Saha Equations
Wednesday, October 3 – Spectral Types and the H-R Diagram
Week 6
Monday, October 8 – NO CLASS (Fall Break)
Wednesday, October 10 – The Virial Theorem, Lecture Notes
Week 7
Monday, October 15 – Radiative Transport
Wednesday, October 17 – Opacity
Week 8
Monday, October 22 – The Equations of Stellar Structure
Wednesday, October 24 – Stellar Structure, Cont’d
Week 9
Monday, October 29 – Opacity, Cont’d
Wednesday, October 31 – Scaling Laws
Week 10
Monday, November 5 – Energy Generation in Stars
Wednesday, November 7 – Nuclear Reaction Rates
Week 11
Monday, November 12 – Final Stellar Structure Ideas
Wednesday, November 14 – Stellar Evolution
NO CLASS November 19 or 21 (Thanksgiving Break)
Unit 3 – Stellar Evolution
Week 12
Monday, November 26 – White Dwarfs
Wednesday, November 28 – White Dwarfs Continued
Week 13
Monday, December 3 – Neutron Stars
Wednesday, December 5 – Pulsars
Week 14
Monday, December 10 – Stellar Evolution in Binaries
Wednesday, December 12 – Nucleosynthesis