Grade: 70% homwork, 30% final exam
Homework assigned friday, due the following friday. While collaboration is encouraged,
the work you hand in must be your own and you must be able to reproduce it.
Oral midterm - 15 min conversation with J. Cohen, graded pass/fail.
Final: take-home, closed book
The honor code applies to all class work.
Textboook
Francis LeBlanc - An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, Wiley (available in paperback).
available as a library ebook at
https://clsproxy.library.caltech.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/caltech/docDetail.actiondocID=10375636
See notes from first week for other references,
easier ones are Phillips: The Physics of Stars and
Bohm-Vitense, Stellar Astrophysics Vol. 2 and 3.
Rough Syllabus:
Overview, underlying physics, basic properties of stars
Star formation
Radiative transfer, stellar atmospheres
Stellar interiors
Stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, end stages
Chemical evolution
Binary evolution
Supernova explosions
