Ph6820/P7820: The Secret Lives of Stars

Instructor: Tom Megeath

EMAIL: megeath@physics.utoledo.edu
TELEPHONE: (419)530-7812
OFFICE: Ritter 204

Syllabus and Lectures

Syllabus

Lecture 1: Introduction to Young Stellar Objects

Lecture 1: Equations

Lecture 2: Molecular Clouds: Galactic Context and Observational Methods

Lecture 3: Molecular Cloud: Properties and Evolution

Lecture 3: Equations

Lecture 4: Molecular Cloud: Turbulence and Magnetic Fields

Lecture 4: Equations

Lecture 5: Dense Cores: Observations

Lecture 6: Isothermal and Bonner Ebert Spheres

Lecture 6: Equations

Lecture 7: The Collapse of Cores and Infall

Lecture 7: Equations

Lecture 8: Protostars and the Collapse of Rotating Cores

Lecture 9: The Spectral Energy Distributions of Protostars and Disks

Lecture 9: Equations

Lecture 10: The Spectral Energy Distributions of Disks

Lecture 10: Equations

Lecture 11: The Evolution of Disks

Lecture 11: Equations

Lecture 12: The Initial Mass Function

Lecture 12: Equations

Lecture 13: Clusters and Associations

Lecture 14: Viscous Accretion Disks

Lecture 14: Equations

Lecture 15: Magnetospheric Accretion

Lecture 16: Outflows

Lecture 16: Equations

Lecture 17: High Mass Star Formation

Lecture 17: Equations

Lecture 18: Pre-main Sequence Stars

Lecture 19: The Stellar Birthline

Lectures 18-20: Equations - including Deuterium Burning

Lecture 20: Deuterium and Hydrogen Burning

Lecture 20: Equations - Deuterium Burning in previous set of equations

Lecture 21: Main Sequence Evolution and Leaving the Main Sequence

Lecture 21: Equations

Lecture 22: Why Stars Become Red Giants

Lecture 23: The Helium Flash and Horizontal Branch

Lecture 24: AGB Stars and Massive Star Evolution

Lecture 25: Pulsating Stars, Cepheids & RR_Lyrae stars

Lecture 26: Nucleosynthesis I

Lecture 27: Nucleosynthesis II

Lecture 28: From AGB stars to Planetary Nebulae

Lecture 29: The End Stages of Massive Stars and Supernovae

Homeworks

Homework 1: Due January 27

Solutions to homework 1

Homework 2: Due February 8

Solutions to homework 2

Homework 3: Due March 1

Solutions to homework 3

Homework 4: Due April 14

Solutions to homework 4

Homework 5: Due April 28

Solutions to homework 5

Exams

Exam 1: Answers

Exam 2: Answers

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Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby Dick