Date

Assigment

Wed, Jan 21

None yet. Assignments are listed on their due dates. Please read the assigned readings in advance. You wouldn't try to go to a literature class if you hadn't yet read the Shakespeare play under discussion that day, the same applies here!

(but no, these lectures are hardly Shakespearean in quality)

Fri, Jan 23

Read Ch.1 “The Celestial Sphere”, pp.2-20

Mon, Jan 26

Read Ch.2 “Celestial Mechanics”. pp.23-53

Wed, Jan 28

Homework due: problems 1.1,1.6,1.7,1.8,1.9 and Earth/Moon charge problem from class

Fri, Jan 30

Read Ch.3 “The Continuous Spectrum of Light”. Sections 3.3 & 3.5 are re-hashes of past physics courses (so you can just skim them), so is 3.4 to an extent but it is very concise and has direct stellar applications so don't give it short shrift.

Mon, Feb 2

Read 3.6 “Color Index”, 5.1 “Spectral Lines”. The rest of Ch.4 & Ch.5 are repeats of Modern Physics.

Read Ch.6 “Telescopes”

Wed, Feb 4

Homework due: problems 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.14

plus “Find the solar constant” problem (Given solar T, R, and the Earth's orbital radius, calculate what the solar constant should be, and compare to the known value)

Fri, Feb 6

Read Ch.7 “Binary Stars and Stellar Parameters”

Mon, Feb 9

Wed, Feb 11

Read Ch.8 “The Classification of Stellar Spectra”

Homework due: problems 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 5.1, 6.7, 6.11, 6.15

Fri, Feb 13

Mon, Feb 16

Read Ch.9.1-9.3 “Stellar Atmospheres”

Wed, Feb 18

Homework due: 7.4, 7.5, 7.8, 8.14, 8.16

Fri, Feb 20

Mon, Feb 23

Read Ch.9.4 “The Structure of Spectral Lines”

Wed, Feb 25

Fri, Feb 27

Read Ch.10.1, 10.2 “Stellar Interiors”

Mon, Mar 2

Read Ch.10.3

Wed, Mar 4

Read Ch. 10.4

Homework due: 9.1, 9.5, 9.6, 9.26

Fri, Mar 6

Read Ch. 10.5, 10.6

Read Ch. 11 “The Sun”

Mon, Mar 9

Wed, Mar 11

Homework due: 10.4, 10.9, 10.15

Fri, Mar 13

Midterm? Or in class when I'm gone the next week?

Mon, Mar 16

Spring Break, no class

Wed, Mar 18

Spring Break, no class

Fri, Mar 20

Spring Break, no class

Mon, Mar 23

No Class, need to schedule a makeup

Wed, Mar 25

No Class, need to schedule a makeup

Fri, Mar 27

Read Ch.12.1, 12.2, 12.3 “Star Formation”

Homework due: 10.3, 10.10, 10.21

Mon, Mar 30

Read Ch.13 (Stellar Evolution)

Wed, Apr 1

Read Ch.14 “Stellar Pulsation”

Homework due: 11.2, 11.12, 11.13, 12.1, 12.4, 12.18

Fri, Apr 3

Mon, Apr 6

Read Ch.15 (Massive star stellar Evolution)

Wed, Apr 8

Homework due: 13.6, 13.7, 13.8 (plus: what's the angular rate of expansion? Given typical visual seeing, how long would we have to wait to see this expansion in photos? Compare to the measurement you would have to make to obtain the velocity based on spectra), 14.2

Fri, Apr 10

Read Ch.16, Degenerate Remnants

Mon, Apr 13

Read Ch.17, General Relativity and Black Holes. (the first two sections of this chapter are review of your 2021 class)

Wed, Apr 15

Homework due: 15.2, 15.11, 15.12, 15.13

Fri, Apr 17

Cosmology is on tap, start with 27.1

Mon, Apr 20

Read Ch.27.2, 27.3

Wed, Apr 22

Homework due: 16.1, 16.4, 16.11, 16.14, 17.4, 17.10, 17.23

Fri, Apr 24

Read Ch. 28

Mon, Apr 27

Read Ch.29.1

Wed, Apr 29

Homework due: 27.2, 27.13, 27.14, 29.1, 29.2

Read rest of Ch.29

Fri, May 1

No Class (NovA groundbreaking @ Ash River)

Mon, May 4

Read Ch.30

Wed, May 6

Homework due: 29.15, 29.17, 29.18, 29.20, 29.37

Fri, May 8

Review for Final

Tue, May 12

Final Exam 8:00-9:55