Professor: Caty Pilachowski
Office: 315 Swain West
Office hours: By appointment (or just stop in)
Email: catyp@astro.indiana.edu

Class meetings: T-Th, 9:30-10:45 AM in Kirkwood 010. When my travel schedule conflicts with this meeting time, we will meet on Wednesday or Friday at 2:30 PM in SW 318.

Syllabus

Schedule of Classes

Vocabulary List (Word document)

Evaluation Form (Word document)

Lectures

• 01/16/02 - Basic Physics (PowerPoint)
• 01/17/02 - Definitions of Radiation (PowerPoint)
• 01/18/02 - Black Body Radiation (PowerPoint)
• 01/22/02 - Solving the Transfer Equation (PowerPoint)
• 01/24/02 - Convective Energy Transport (PowerPoint)
• 01/29/02 - Opacities I (PowerPoint)
• 01/29/02 - Opacities II (PowerPoint)
• 02/05/02 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium and Model Atmospheres (PowerPoint)
• 02/07/02 - Stellar Continua (PowerPoint)
• 02/12/02 - Review Notes (PowerPoint)
• 02/14/02 - Line Absorption I (PowerPoint)
• 02/19/02 - Line Absorption II (PowerPoint)
• 02/21/02 - Spectral Line Formation (PowerPoint)
• 02/26/02 - More Spectral Line Formation (PowerPoint)
• 03/05/02 - Abundance Determinations I (PowerPoint)
• 03/07/02 - Abundance Determinations II (PowerPoint)
• 03/19/02 - Stellar Radii (PowerPoint)
• 03/21/02 - NLTE (PowerPoint)
• 03/26/02 - Stellar Zoo (PowerPoint)
• 04/02/02 - Stellar Activity (PowerPoint)
• 04/09/02 - Stellar Surfaces (PowerPoint)
• 04/11/02 - L & T Dwarfs (PowerPoint)
• 04/16/02 - Winds and Mass Loss (PowerPoint)
• 04/23/02 - White Dwarfs (PowerPoint)

Homework Sets

• Problem Set 1 (Word file)
• Problem Set 2 (Word file) SED 1 SED 2 SED 3