PHYS 413: ASTROPHYSICS (SPRING 05)
#	.	Date	Text	Subject
	R	13-Jan		No Class (students at AAS meeting).
1	T	18-Jan		Course Overview. Diagnostic Quiz.
	R	20-Jan		No Class (instructor ill).
2	T	25-Jan		Part I (Classical Mechanics). Conservative & Central Forces; Harmonic Oscillation
3	R	27-Jan		Orbits, 2-body problem; Generalized Kepler's Laws
4	T	1-Feb		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		Distribution Functions, Collisions
8	T	15-Feb		1) Laws of Thermodynamics; 2) Basics of Equilibrium Stat Mech
9	R	17-Feb		Probability Distributions; Calculating Mean Values
10	T	22-Feb		The 4 main TE distributions: Maxwell Dist; Boltzman Dist; Saha Eq; Black-body
11	R	24-Feb		guest lecture (Hakkila); Globular Cluster Dynamics
12	T	1-Mar		Relaxation timescales; Wrap Up Collisions and Dynamics
	R	3-Mar		EXAM #1 (in class)
	T	8-Mar		SPRING BREAK!
	R	10-Mar		SPRING BREAK!
13	T	15-Mar	R&L 1	Part III (Radiative Transfer). Basic Definitions (Specific Intensity)
14	R	17-Mar		Moments of Specific Intensity; Equation of Radiative Transfer
15	T	22-Mar		Source Function
16	R	24-Mar		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		Waves in Magnetized Plasma; Drift Motions
25	T	26-Apr		Cyclotron Emission (Kiwi)