Courses

Prerequisites: a strong undergraduate background in E-M and classical mechanics. Qualified undergraduates may be admitted with the instructor's 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.