- Stellar properties: parallax, magnitude
systems, colors, bolometric corrections, two-color
plots, spectral analysis, H-R diagram, stellar
populations, binary systems, stellar pulsations,
sunspots
- Thermal physics: ideal gas law,
basic thermodynamics, equation of state for
ionized and partially ionized gas, particle
velocity distribution, radiation pressure,
degenerate matter
- Hydrostatic equilibrium: central pressure
and temperature, virial theorem, isothermal
atmospheres, scale heights, polytropes
- Radiative transport: Radiation flux and
temperature gradient, opacity, Rosseland mean,
Kramer's law, the new opacities
- Introduction to convective instability:
convective cell motion, heat transfer by
convection, mixing length theory, overshoot,
convective mixing
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- Fusion reactions: p-p chain, CNO cycle,
triple alpha process, carbon burning
- Numerical methods: shooting method,
relaxation method, linearization, Lagrangian
variables
- Star formation: Jeans instability,
fragmentation, core formation, hydrostatic
contraction
- Main sequence:
metallicity effects, evolutionary timescales
- Post-main-sequence evolution, globular
clusters, evolution of solar, high mass and low
mass stars, population I and II
- Testing evolution models, star cluster
color-magnitude diagrams. Isochrones
- High mass stars: heavy element creation,
supernova events
- Compact objects: white dwarfs, neutron
stars, black holes.
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