Week |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 21-25 | No class |
Introduction. Equatorial Coordinate System. Parallax (Chapter 1, 3.1) |
Kepler's Laws. Two-body problem (Chapters 2.1, 2.2) |
| January 28- February 1 | Kepler's 1st Law. (Chapter 2.3) |
Kepler's 2nd and 3rd Laws. Extrasolar Planets. (Chapter 2.3, 7.4) |
Multiple Planet Systems. Chaos. Virial Theorem (Chapter 2.4) |
| February 4-8 | Luminosity, Flux and Magnitudes. (Chapter 3.2) |
Specific Flux, Intensity. (Chapter 9.1) |
Blackbody Radiation (Chapters 3.3-3.5) |
| February 11-15 | Telescopes, Filters and Color Magnitudes. Color-Magnitude Diagram. (Chapter 3.6) |
Kirchhoff's Laws. Photons. The Bohr Atom. (Chapters 5.1-5.4) |
Spectral Types of Stars. Boltzmann and Saha Equations. (Chapter 8.1) |
| February 18-22 | HR Diagram. Luminosity Classes. Binary Stars. (Chapter 8.2, 7.1-7.3) |
Radiative Transfer: Absorption. Optical Depth. (Chapter 9.2) |
Radiative Transfer: Emission and Scattering. (Chapter 9.3, 9.4 pp. 255-258) |
| February 25-29 | Scattering. Radiation Pressure. Line Profiles. (Chapters 9.1, 9.4 pp.258-261 and 264-265, 9.5 pp. 267-271) |
Stellar Interiors: Hydrostatic Equilibrium, Equations of State. (Chapter 10.1, 10.2) |
First Midterm Exam (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9) |
| March 3-7 | Stellar Interiors: Nuclear Fusion (Chapter 10.3) |
Stellar Interiors: Energy Transport. (Chapters 10.4) |
Building Stellar Models. The Main Sequence. (Chapter 10.5, 10.6, 11.1) |
| March 10-14 | Interstellar Medium. Extinction (Chapter 12.1) |
Star Formation. Jeans Mass (Chapter 12.2) |
Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution (Chapter 12.3) |
| March 17-21 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| March 24-28 | Post-Main-Sequence Evolution in Low-Mass Stars (Chapter 13.1 (pp. 446-453), 13.2) |
PMS Evolution in High-Mass Stars. Type II Supernovae (Chapter 15.1-15.3 pp. 518-534) |
No class |
| March 31- April 4 | Tests of Stellar Evolution: Stellar Nucleosynthesis,
Stellar Clusters. (Chapter 13.3, 15.3 pp. 534-542) |
Gamma-Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays (Chapter 15.4, 15.5) |
White Dwarfs. Degeneracy Pressure (Chapter 16.1-16.3) |
| April 7-11 | Mass-Radius Relation Chandrasekhar Mass Neutron Stars (Chapter 16.4, 16.6) |
Properties of Neutron Stars Pulsars (Chapter 16.6, 16.7) |
General Relativity Black Holes (Chapter 17.1) |
| April 14-18 | Properties of Black Holes (Chapter 17.3) |
Galactic Distance Ladder The Milky Way Galaxy (Chapter 24.2, 24.3 pp. 914-922, 24.4) |
Spirals and Ellipticals (Chapter 25.1, 25.2. 25.4) |
| April 11-25 | Extragalactic Distance Ladder Hubble Law (Chapter 27.1, 27.2) |
Galaxy Clusters Interactions of Galaxies (Chapter 27.3 pp. 1058-1069, 26.1) |
Active Galactic Nuclei (Chapter 28.2) |
| April 28- May 2 | Newtonian Cosmology (Chapter 29.1) |
Cosmic Background Radiation Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (Chapters 29.2) |
The Early Universe (Chapter 30.1, 30.2) |
| May 5-9 | PRESENTATIONS (time TBA) |
PRESENTATIONS (time TBA) |