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TOPICS |
FILES, NOTES, and ASSIGNMENTS |
| May 9 |
12:00 noon |
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- DUE: ALL project figures due
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| May 7 |
Final exam |
10:30-12:30 |
| May 2 |
Unit 25, 26 |
Last stages of stellar evolution |
| Apr. 30 |
Unit 24 |
Asymptotic giant branch |
| Apr. 25 |
Unit 23 |
Horizontal branch |
| Apr. 23 |
Unit 21, 22 |
RGB, first dredge up, RGB luminosity bump, helium flash, morphology |
| Apr. 18 |
Unit 20 |
Terminal-age main sequence, Sch\"{o}nberg-Chandrasekhar limit |
| Apr. 16 |
Unit 19 |
- Evolution on the main sequence
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- DUE: Evolution figures on the main sequence
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| Apr. 11 |
Unit 16 |
Schwarzschild and Ledoux criteria, mixing lenght theory, convective overshoot |
| Apr. 4 |
Unit 15.1, 15.2 |
Convective instability, buoyancy frequency |
| Mar. 29 |
Unit 13.1, 13.2 |
Diffusion and radiation transport |
| Mar. 26 |
Unit 14.1, 14.2 |
Whiteboard 3
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| Mar. 21 |
Unit 13.1, 13.2 |
Diffusion and radiation transport |
| Mar. 19 |
Unit 12.2 |
Ionization effects on thermodynamics |
| Mar. 7 |
Unit 12.1, 12.2 |
Mixture of ideal gas and radiation |
| Mar. 5 |
Unit 11.1, 11.2 |
Ideal gas thermodynamics, adiabatic process. We are skipping polytropes from chapter 10. |
| Feb. 29 |
Unit 9.2 |
Whiteboard 2
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| Feb. 27 |
Unit 9.1 |
- Whiteboard 1 stops here.
- No mid-term, but we will discuss important topics in class and what you should know after spring break
- Discussed Evolution Project, assigned masses
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- Evolution Project: initial movie of model, due March 7
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| Feb. 22 |
Unit 8.2 |
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| Feb. 20 |
Unit 8.1 |
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- DUE: Homework problem 7.1
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| Feb. 15 |
Unit 7.1, 7.2 |
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- Homework problem 7.1, due February 20, 10:30am
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| Feb. 13 |
Unit 6.2, 6.3 |
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- DUE: Computer Problem 1.1
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| Feb. 8 |
Unit 6.1 |
| Feb. 6 |
Unit 5 |
| Feb. 1 |
Units 4.2, 4.3 |
| Jan. 30 |
Units 1, 4: 1.4, 1.5, 4.1 |
- Skipping Units 2 and 3 for now
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- Computer Problem 1.1 (no nuclear reactions). DUE: Feb. 13, 10:30am
- DUE by CLASS TIME: Computer Problem 0 (MESA intro project)
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| Jan. 25 |
Unit 1: 1.1 - 1.4.1 |
| Jan. 23 |
Introduction
- Overview |
- Files: [slides] [article]
- Whiteboard 1
- ASSIGNMENTS:
- Read carefully the syllabus and MESA notes available in the menu on the left
- Try to run MESA and submit the first assignment in the MESA notes (Computer Problem 0)
- DUE: Tuesday, January 30, Computer Problem 0, electronic submission in Canvas
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