TOPIC LIST AND READING ASSIGMENTS
Weekly HW Assignments will be posted on the Assignments tab of the sakai course web site and must be turned in through sakai. Unless otherwise noted, H/W is due by 5:00PM, Friday, of the week indicated.
Week of | Topics Covered | HW Assignment |
Jan 18 | Physical introduction to stars | None |
Jan 25 | Stellar fluxes and luminosities, temperature, thermal equilibrium, and statistical mechanics | Assignment 1 (on sakai) |
Feb 1 | Stellar temperatures, Stellar classification Other relevant stellar observables | Assignment 2 (on sakai) |
Feb 8 | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Stellar ages Star clusters, Stellar energetics, LIGO result on GW150914 and stellar endpoints | Assignment 3 (on sakai) |
Feb 15 | Pressure of ideal non-degenerate gas; mean mass per particle, Pressure of ideal degenerate electron gas, density-temperature EoS regimes, Radiation pressure, brief summary of ASTRO-H ("Hitomi") science after successful launch | Assignment 4 (on sakai) |
Feb 22 | Class cancelled Tues (Feb 23); Quasistatic changes, Specific Heats, Adiabatic indices, Effects of ionization | None |
Mar 14 | Spring Break | None |
Mar 21 | Midterm exam (Tues, Mar 22) | Assignment TBD |
May TBD | Final Exam | ... |
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Please send any comments to Jack Hughes,
jph //at\\ physics.rutgers.edu.
Revised January 25, 2015