ASTROPHYSICS 1: STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION. Introduces basic interior structural equations, energy generation processes, opacity, energy transport, radiation transport in stellar atmospheres, star formation, late stages of stellar evolution, stellar binaries and clusters. Special emphasis on analytic and numerical models relevant to the sun. 

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This textbook is recommended but not required (detailed notes will be 
provided online) : <br><br>

Advanced Stellar Astrophysics, by William K. Rose ISBN 0 521 58833 2 paperback <br><br>

This textbook provides an introduction to concepts (for those without 
undergraduate astrophysics training): <br><br>
 
An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, by D.A. Ostlie and B.W. Carroll, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-8053-0348-0 <br><br>

(or look up Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by the same authors) <br><br>


Look'em up on amazon.com
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<a href="SPS5010_chap1.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap1.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 1 (released 9/4/08) </a> <br>
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<a href="SPS5010_chap2u.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap2u.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 2 (updated 9/18/08) </a> <br>
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Next mid-term ... on November 4.
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<a href="SPS5010_chap2_pt2.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap2_pt2.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 2 part II (released 10/3/08) </a> <br>
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<a href="SPS5010_chap2_pt3.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap2_pt3.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 2 part III (released 10/10/08) </a> <br>
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<a href="SPS5010_chap3.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap3.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 3  (released 10/22/08) </a> <br>
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<a href="SPS5010_chap4.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap4.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 4  (released 11/7/08) </a> <br>
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<a href="zams.f" name="zams.f">Hansen & Kawaler stellar structure code.</a> <br>
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Testing on FIT's olin show that the g77 compiler works best. Example:
'g77 -o ex_zams zams.f' and then './ex_zams'
(do not type in the quotes-endquotes!)
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<a href="SPS5010_chap5_6.pdf" name="SPS5010_chap5_6.pdf">Lecture notes Chapter 5&6  (revised 11/30/08) </a> <br>
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