Schedule

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)
 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)
 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)

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