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Lecture Slides 2013

• Lecture 1: Physical Properties
• Lecture 3: Equations of Stellar Structure
• Lectures 4-5: Energy & Opacity / Homology and the Main Sequence
• Lecture 6: Equation of State
• Lecture 8: Abundance of Elements
• Lecture 9: Helioseismology
• Lecture 10: Pulsating Stars
• Lecture 11: Supernovae & Neutron Stars
• Lecture 12: Modeling Stellar Evolution
• Lecture 13: Stellar Atmospheres

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Supplementary notes

• Supernovae Discovery Statistics (Avishay Gal-Yam)
• Nuclear Reaction Office Hour Notes (Marta Bryan)
• Helioseismology (Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard)
• Helioseismology (Judy Cohen)
• Mathematica file Constants (You can save it as .nb file and open with Mathematica)
• Mathematica file Presentation it contains IMF and the HW problem from HKT
• Midterm Topics

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Phase Diagrams

Courtesy Sterl Phinney

• States of Matter
• Interior Structure of Selected Stars
• Stellar Structure Overlaid on the States of Matter
• OPAL Opacities for Solar Metallicity
• OPAL Opacities Overlaid on the States of Matter

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