Date |
Lecture Topic |
Reading |
Note |
Sept. 2-7 | Programming Exercise | see Moodle for instruction | |
Sept. 2 | 0. Introduction | ||
Sept. 7 | 1. Normal Distribution and Propagation of Error | normal and chi squared distribution | |
Sept. 9 | 2. Direct distance measurements | p.57-63 | |
Sept. 14 | 3. Extension of parallax method | ABC of Distances | |
Sept. 16 | 4. Celestial Mechanics w/ Binary I | p.23-53 | |
Sept. 21 | 5. Celestial Mechanics w/ Binary II | p.180-198 | |
Sept. 23 | 6.Planet Finder Project (bring a laptop) |
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Sept. 28 | 7. Basics: stars, radiation, matter | p.60-71 | |
Sept. 30 | 8. Interaction between radiation and matter | p.63-71, p.244-247 | |
Oct. 5 | 9. Thermal radiation | p.68-79 | |
Oct. 7 | 10. Mechanical stability of a star | p.284-288 | |
Oct. 7 | ** Planet Finder project report due ** | ||
Oct. 12 | 11. Ideal gas law and Thermal Equilibrium | p.288-296 | |
Oct. 14 |
Mid-term EXAM (Take-home) | ||
Oct. 19 | 12. Thermal pressure and pressure integral | p.288-296 | |
Oct. 21 | 13. Radiation pressure and Eddington Luminosity | p.231-255, p.341 | |
Oct. 26 | 14. Energy transport in stars | p.231-266, p.315-329 | |
Oct. 28 | 15. Nuclear process I | p.296-314 | |
Nov. 2 | 16. Nuclear process II | p.296-314 | |
Nov. 4 | 17. Stellar model building | p.329-340 | |
Nov. 9 | 18. Stellar structure project (bring a laptop) |
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Nov. 11 | * Veterans’ Day * | ||
Nov. 16 | 19. Bohr atom and spectral lines | p.119-129 | |
Nov. 18 | 20. Excitation and ionization in photosphere | p.202-219 | |
Nov. 23 | * Stellar Structure Project Part 1 due * | ||
Nov. 23-28 | * Thanksgiving Break * | ||
Nov. 30 | 21. Spectral line and luminosity class | p.202-209, p.219-228 | |
Dec. 2 & 7 | Stellar Structure Project | ||
Dec. 9 | **Stellar structure project report due** | ||
Dec. 13 | CUMULATIVE FINAL EXAM (Take-home) |