PHYS
413: ASTROPHYSICS (SPRING 05) |
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Date |
Text |
Subject |
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R |
13-Jan |
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No Class (students at AAS meeting). |
1 |
T |
18-Jan |
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Course Overview. Diagnostic Quiz. |
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R |
20-Jan |
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No Class (instructor ill). |
2 |
T |
25-Jan |
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Part I (Classical Mechanics).
Conservative & Central Forces; Harmonic Oscillation |
3 |
R |
27-Jan |
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Orbits, 2-body problem; Generalized Kepler's Laws |
4 |
T |
1-Feb |
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Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Forms; Determining Mass
of Binary Stars |
5 |
R |
3-Feb |
(handout) |
1) Discuss papers on MW Black Hole; 2) The "3
body" problem |
6 |
T |
8-Feb |
Shore 1 |
Part II (Statistical Mechanics).
Virial theorum; The Boltzman equation |
7 |
R |
10-Feb |
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Distribution Functions, Collisions |
8 |
T |
15-Feb |
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1) Laws of Thermodynamics; 2) Basics of Equilibrium
Stat Mech |
9 |
R |
17-Feb |
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Probability Distributions; Calculating Mean Values |
10 |
T |
22-Feb |
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The 4 main TE distributions: Maxwell Dist; Boltzman
Dist; Saha Eq; Black-body |
11 |
R |
24-Feb |
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guest lecture (Hakkila); Globular Cluster Dynamics |
12 |
T |
1-Mar |
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Relaxation timescales; Wrap Up Collisions and
Dynamics |
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R |
3-Mar |
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EXAM #1 (in class) |
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T |
8-Mar |
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SPRING BREAK! |
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R |
10-Mar |
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SPRING BREAK! |
13 |
T |
15-Mar |
R&L 1 |
Part III (Radiative Transfer). Basic
Definitions (Specific Intensity) |
14 |
R |
17-Mar |
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Moments of Specific Intensity; Equation of Radiative
Transfer |
15 |
T |
22-Mar |
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Source Function |
16 |
R |
24-Mar |
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Solutions of RT Eqn |
17 |
T |
29-Mar |
R&L 2,3 |
Part IV (Emission Mechanisms).
Bound-Bound Processses; Statistical Equilibrium |
18 |
R |
31-Mar |
R&L 10 |
Profile Functions and Broadening Mechanisms |
19 |
T |
5-Apr |
R&L 5,6 |
Free-Free Emission (Cassel); Synchrotron Emission
(Kevin) |
20 |
R |
7-Apr |
R&L 3 |
Synchrotron (continued); Thompson Scattering
(Stephen) |
21 |
T |
12-Apr |
R&L 7 |
Compton Scattering (Jen); Rayleigh Scattering
(Sarah) |
22 |
R |
14-Apr |
R&L 8 |
Part V (Plasma Physics). Basic
Definiitions |
23 |
T |
19-Apr |
R&L 2 |
EM Waves in Free Space and in a Cold Plasma |
24 |
R |
21-Apr |
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Waves in Magnetized Plasma; Drift Motions |
25 |
T |
26-Apr |
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Cyclotron Emission (Kiwi) |