Lecture Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Recitation |
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Stellar astrophysics: How stars work |
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| Jan. 21 | Approximations, scaling relations, characteristic scales, and averages | |||
| Jan. 23 | Observations of stars | Kutner Ch. 2 Ryden Sec. 5.7 & 13.1-13.4 |
No recitation this week! | |
| Jan. 28 | Binary stars | Kutner Ch. 5 Ryden Sec. 13.5-13.6 |
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| Jan. 30 | Stellar structure | Kutner Ch. 9.4 Ryden Sec. 14.1, 15.1, 15.Appendix |
Rec 1 | |
| Feb. 4 | The Sun | Kutner Ch. 6 Ryden Sec. 7.1-7.2 & 15.1.3-15.2 |
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| Feb. 6 | Nuclear fusion | Kutner Ch. 9.2-9.3 Ryden Sec. 15.3 |
Rec 2, Data table | |
| Feb. 11 | Stellar interiors | Kutner Ch. 9.5-9.6 Ryden Sec. 15.4 & 17.3 |
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Stellar evolution: How stars live their lives, and the corpses they leave behind | ||||
| Feb. 13 | Dead and failed stars | Kutner Ch. 10.4 & 11.2-11.3 Ryden Sec. 18.1-18.2 |
Rec 3 | |
| Feb. 18 | Stellar mass black holes | Kutner Ch. 8.4 & 11.5 Ryden Sec. 18.3 |
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| Feb. 20 | Normal stars and the main sequence | Kutner Ch. 3.5 & 10.1 Ryden Sec. 14.4 |
Rec 4 | |
| Feb. 25 | Star clusters and stellar evolution | Kutner Ch. 3.2, 11.1, & 13 Ryden Sec. 14.2-14.3, 17.2, & 18.4 |
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| Feb. 27 | Midterm #1, Practice Midterm #1 and Solutions | No recitation this week! | ||
The interstellar medium: The reservoir of material from which stars form and to which they return material when they die |
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| Mar. 4 | Interstellar dust | Kutner Ch. 14.2-14.3 Ryden Sec. 16.1 |
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| Mar. 6 | Interstellar gas | Kutner Ch. 3.1, 3.3-3.4, & 14.4-14.5 Ryden Ch. 5.1-5.3 & 16.2-16.3 |
Rec 5 | |
| Mar. 11 | No class - Spring break! | |||
| Mar. 13 | No class - Spring break! | No recitation this week! | ||
| Mar. 18 | Star formation | Kutner Ch. 15 Ryden Sec. 17.1 |
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Normal galaxies: Structure and dynamics |
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| Mar. 20 | The Milky Way: shape of the galaxy, stellar populations and motions, stars as a gas | Kutner Ch. 16.4 Ryden Sec. 19.1-19.3 |
Rec 6 Hyades data, ZAMS data |
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| Mar. 25 | The Milky Way: stellar relaxation time, differential rotation of the disk, local standard of rest, and galactic rotation curves | Kutner Ch. 16.2-16.3 & 16.5 Ryden Sec. 19.4-19.6 |
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| Mar. 27 | Normal galaxies: the Hubble sequence | Kutner Ch. 17.1-17.2 Ryden Sec. 20.1 |
Rec 7 | |
| Apr. 1 | Normal galaxies: spectra | Kutner Ch. 17.3-17.4 Ryden Sec. 20.2 |
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| Apr. 3 | Distances to galaxies: standard candles and standard rulers | Kutner 12.2, 18.1-18.3 & 20.5 Ryden Sec. 20.4 |
Rec 8 Cepheids (DDO) |
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Galaxy clusters and unusual galaxies |
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| Apr. 8 | The most distant galaxies: Hubble's Law, measurements of H0, and AGN | Kutner Ch. 18.5-18.6 & 19.4 Ryden Sec. 20.5 & 21.2 |
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| Apr. 10 | AGN | Kutner Sec. 19.2-19.3, 19.6 Ryden Sec. 21.1, 21.3, & 21.Appendix |
Rec 9 | |
| Apr. 15 | Groups of galaxies | Kutner Ch. 18.4, 19.1 Ryden Sec. 21.4-21.5 & Ch. 22 |
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| Apr. 17 | Midterm #2, Practice Midterm #2 and Solutions | No recitation this week! | ||
Cosmology: The structure and origin of the Universe |
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| Apr. 22 | The Big Bang | Kutner Ch. 20.1-20.2 & 21.2 Ryden Sec. 23.1 |
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| Apr. 24 | General Relativity and the Universe | Kutner Ch. 20.4 Ryden Sec. 23.2-23.5 |
Rec 10 | |
| Apr. 29 | Finding the Universe among the universes | Kutner Ch. 21.4 Ryden Sec. 24.1-24.2 |
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| May 1 | Properties of our Universe since decoupling | Kutner Ch. 21.1 Ryden Sec. 24.3-24.4 |
Rec 11 | |
| May 8 | Final exam, Practice final exam and Solutions | |||