77501 - Introduction to Astrophysics and Cosmology

77501 Introduction to Astrophysics and Cosmology / מבוא לאסטרופיסיקה וקוסמולוגיה
General Info	Lecturer: Prof. Nir Shaviv e-mail: Reception hours: set by e-mail (or, see schedule here) Office: Kaplun 102. Phone: (65) 85807 Grade Structure / Requirements: 100% Final Exam.
Lectures	Lecture 1 (Introduction - mostly pictures, not the text that goes with them) Lecture 2 (Definitions - magnitude, distance, resolution) Lecture 3 (The "Distance Ladder") Lecture 4 (The Virial Theorem) Lecture 4 extra (why γ<4/3 is dynamically unstable) Lecture 5 (Polytropes: Lane Emden equation) Lecture 6 (Polytropes: Application to the Sun and to White Dwarfs) (Typo on page 4: should read ne=pi/3... and not ne=4/3... in the limit between rel and non. rel pressure) Lecture 7 (Radiative Transfer, and extra, not part of the curriculum!) Lecture 8 (Convection) Lecture 9 (Nuclear Reactions) Lecture 10 (Homology) Lecture 11 (Stellar Evolution) Lecture 12 (Supernovae) Lecture 13 (Accretion Disks) Lecture 14 (Robertson-Walker metric for the Universe) Lecture 15 (Friedmann Equations)
Exams & Exercises	Exercises A sample exam and its solution. Astrophysical Formulae - Version 5 Moed A 2014 and it solution. Moed A 2013 and it solution. Moed B 2013 and it solution.
Other Links	EZ-Web - calculate stellar structure and evolution online (written and maintained by Prof. Rich Townsend)

Last updated: Feb 2014