Call Number | 13685 |
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Day & Time Location |
TR 5:40pm-6:55pm 307 Pupin Laboratories |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Yury Levin |
Type | LECTURE |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | Prerequisites: a strong undergraduate background in E-M and classical mechanics. Qualified undergraduates may be admitted with the instructors permission. The basic physics of high energy astrophysical phenomena. Protostars, equations of stellar structure; radiative transfer theory; stellar nucleosynthesis; radiative emission processes; equations of state and cooling theory for neutron stars and white dwarfs, Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation; Chandrasekhar limit; shocks and fluids; accretion theory for both disks and hard surfaces; black hole orbits and light bending. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Physics |
Enrollment | 4 students (20 max) as of 9:06PM Friday, May 9, 2025 |
Subject | Physics |
Number | GR6011 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
Open To | Engineering:Graduate, GSAS |
Campus | Morningside |
Section key | 20231PHYS6011G001 |