| Day | Date | Time | Room | Class | Suggested reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed. | March 7 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 63416 | Lecture 1: Properties of matter
Overview. Equation of state, ideal gas law. Maxwell distribution. Boltzmann distribution. |
Rutten 4.3 (too brief),
Carroll & Ostlie 8.1 (rather nice), Rybicki & Lightman 9.5 (has a "proper" derivation of Saha), Shu pp. 62-65 (requires some statistical mechanics). |
| Mon. | March 12 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 80115 | Lecture 2: Properties of matter and radiation
Saha equation. Abundances. Radiation definitions. |
Rutten 2.1-2.2.4, Carroll & Ostlie 9.1,
Rybicki & Lightman 1.1-1.3, Shu first parts of ch. 1, 2. |
| Wed. | March 14 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 80127 | Exercises 1 | Carroll & Ostlie 10.2, Rutten 4.1-4.2.3 |
| Mon. | March 19 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 10134 | Lecture 3: More on radiation fields
More radiation quantities. Black body radiation. Introduction to radiative transfer. |
Rutten 3.1-3.6 |
| Wed. | March 21 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 6K1119 | Exercises 2 | |
| Mon. | March 26 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 80101 | Lecture 4: Solutions to the transport equation | Rutten 3.7 |
| Wed. | March 28 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 6K1119 | Exercises 3 | |
| Mon. | April 2 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 80101 | Lecture 5: Microscopic processes | Rutten 5,
Carroll & Ostlie pp. 269-272. |
| Wed. | April 4 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 6K1119 | Exercises 4 / Lab intro | |
| Wed. | April 18 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 80121 | Lecture 6: Maxwell's equations | Lecture handouts; Rutten 6.1-6.2;
Hecht 3 (and Hecht 2 on waves if needed) |
| Wed. | April 25 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 80101 | Lecture 7: Continuum radiation | Rutten 6.3-6.4.1 (Hecht 4 for more on light in matter) |
| Wed. | May 2 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 6K1119 | Lecture 8: Discrete processes
Free-free emission and extinction coefficients. Einstein coefficients and Einstein relations. Line source function. Destruction probability. |
Rutten 5 |
| Mon. | May 7 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 80101 | Lecture 9: High-energy processes | Rutten 6.4.2 - 6.5 |
| Wed. | May 9 | 10:15 - 12:00 | 80121 | Lecture 10: Astrophysical applications | Rutten 8 |
| Mon. | May 14 | 13:15 - 15:00 | 6K1119 | Question-and-answer session | |
| Mon. | May 21 | 9:00 - 15:00 | 6K1113 | FINAL EXAM |