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Study Materials

These partial lecture notes supplement the material covered in class.

TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
Thermal History of the Universe (PDF)
Evolution of the Scale Factor and the Hubble Constant (PDF)
Writeup on Shakura-Sunyaev Accretion Disk Model (PDF)
The Roche Potential (PDF)
Photon Trajectories Near a Black Hole (PDF)
"New Views of Neutron Stars." Physics Today, February 1999, 40 - 46.
Writeup on Chandrasekhar (Link to article)
Nuclear Binding Energies (PDF)
Stellar Structure Equations (PDF)
Thomson and Rayleigh Scattering (PDF)
Star Contributions (PDF)
Visual Binaries (PDF)
Spectroscopic Notation (PDF)
X-Ray Reflection at Grazing Incidence (PDF)
Refracting Telescope Schematic (PDF)
Fraunhofer Diffraction (PDF)
Kepler Problem (PDF)