חומר עזר לקורס: אסטרופיסיקה וקוסמולוגיה

Online material for the course: Astrophysics and Cosmology 77501

The page will soon include more lectures in Cosmology and a few old exams (through not exactly in the format of the current exam)
The exam will be with closed material and formulae pages that we supply.



Lecturers:

Prof. Yehuda Hoffman
e-mail: hoffman_nospam@huji.ac.il
Reception hours: By appointment @ Popick 123, e-mail or phone (65)86860.
 

Dr. Nir Shaviv
e-mail: shaviv@phys.huji.ac.il
Reception hours: By appointment @ Kaplun 102, e-mail (preferred) or phone (65)85807, or anytime in office.



Syllabus (pdf)

Bibliography (pdf)

(NEW!) Astrophysics Formulae (pdf)

Lecture 1  (pdf) [Basic properties and observations of Stars]

Lecture 2  (pdf) [More on Magnitudes, and background on the Sun]

Lecture 3  (pdf) [More on stars, hydrostatic equation, virial theorem etc]

Lecture 4  (pdf) [Polytropes]

Lecture 5  (pdf) [The Sun as a Polytropes, White Dwarfs]

Lecture 6  (pdf) [Radiative Transfer]

Lecture 7  (pdf) [Convection]

Lecture 8  (pdf) [Thermonuclear Reactions]

Lecture 9  (pdf) [Homologous Stars]

Lecture 10  (pdf) [Stellar Evolution]

Cosmology 1  (pdf) [Introduction]

Cosmology 2  (pdf) [Robertson-Walker Metric]
Cosmology 2  (pdf vs6)

Cosmology 3  (pdf) [Friedmann Equations]
Cosmology 3  (pdf vs6)

Cosmology 4  (pdf) [Friedmann Equations Cont.]
Cosmology 4  (pdf vs6)

Cosmology 5  (pdf) [Brief History of Time]

Cosmology 6  (pdf) [Obtaining Parameters]

Cosmology 7  (pdf) [Jeans Instability]

Cosmology 8  (pdf) [Linear Theory]

Cosmology 9  (pdf) [Peculiar Velocities]

Cosmology 10  (pdf) [Top Hat & Open Universe]

Cosmology 11  (pdf) [Initial Conditions]

Cosmology 12  (pdf) [Jeans Mass]

Cosmology 13  (pdf) [Mass of Galaxies: Cooling]

Cosmology 7-13  (pdf) [Combined]


Problem Sets
Problem Set 1  (pdf)  Problem Set 1 (small jpg)
(Due: Wed 12 Nov, 2003)
Note: Problem 2 is missing that the effective temperature is 30,000K.
Also, look at the following note to save yourself time.
Solution to Problem Set 1   (pdf) ;
Problem Set 2  (pdf)  Problem Set 2 (small jpg)
(Due: Wed 19 Nov, 2003)
Solution to Problem Set 2   (pdf) ;
Problem Set 3  (pdf)  Problem Set 3 (small jpg)
(Due: Wed 26 Nov, 2003)
Solution to Problem Set 3   (pdf) ;
Problem Set 4  (pdf)  Problem Set 4 (small jpg)
(Due: Sun 7 Dec, 2003)
Solution to Problem Set 4   (pdf) ;
Problem Set 5  (pdf)
(Due: Sun 21 Dec, 2003)
Solution to Problem Set 5   (pdf) ;
Problem Set 6  (pdf)
Solution to Problem Set 6   (pdf) ;
(Due: Sun 21 Dec, 2003)
It is required to submit at least 4 out of the 6 stellar structure problem sets.
It is highly encouraged to solve all of them!!
Cosmology Prob Set 1  (pdf)
(Due: Thu 8 Jan, 2004)
Cosmology Prob Set 2  (jpg)
(Due: Thu 22 Jan, 2004)
Stars?

This page was last updated Oct 30, 2003