READING AND HOMEWORK ASSIGMENTS
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HW Assignments are due before 4:30PM on Friday of the week indicated (except as noted)
Reading Assignments are from the course textbook by Rosswog and Bruggen (R&B)
| Week of | Reading Assignment | HW Assignment |
| Aug 30 |
Chap 1 (R&B) Summary of HEA science |
None |
| Sep 6 |
Chap 2 (R&B) |
Assignment 1 (on sakai) |
| Sep 13 |
Ionization losses Begin photon interactions with matter Thomson scattering Larmor's Formula (Section 3.7 R&B) Photoelectric absorption |
Assignment 2 (on sakai) |
| Sep 20 | Section 3.8.3 (R&B) Compton scattering, pair production, detectors (gas proportional counters) | None |
| Sep 27 |
Finish gas detectors, CCDs midterm review |
Assignment 3 (on sakai) |
| Oct 4 |
First midterm (Tues, Oct 6) Low T heat capacity, microcalorimeters |
Assignment 4 (on sakai) |
| Oct 11 |
Finish microcalorimeters, Poisson distribution X-ray reflection, optical constants, dispersion |
Assignment 5 (on sakai) |
| Oct 18 |
X-ray telescopes Begin Basic radiation properties |
Assignment 6 (on sakai) |
| Oct 25 |
Finish Basic radiation properties Blackbody radiation |
Assignment 7 (on sakai) |
| Nov 1 |
Bremsstrahlung, radiative recombination Two-photon continuum, Line emission Intro to Galaxy Clusters |
Assignment 8 (on sakai) |
| Nov 8 |
Class cancelled (Tues, Nov 10) Finish line emission, midterm review |
Assignment 9 (on sakai) |
| Nov 15 |
Second midterm (Tues, Nov 17) Hydrostatic equilibrium in Galaxy Clusters |
None |
| Nov 22 |
Finish galaxy clusters (Tues, Nov 22) Shocks/SNRs (R&B 2.7 & 2.8 & 4.4) (Wed, Nov 23) |
None | Nov 29 |
Finish Shocks/SNRs Start Accretion (R&B Chap 6 and 8.4.2) |
Assignment 10 (due Tuesday, Dec 1, on sakai) | Dec 6 | Finish accretion (last class, Tues Dec 8) | Assignment 11 (TBD) |
Please send any comments to Jack Hughes, jph //at\\ physics.rutgers.edu.
Revised November 23, 2015