Lectures on Astrophysics
An online archive of lectures given by Nick Kaiser on astrophysics.
Book: Elements of Astrophysics
A comprehensive set of lecture notes by Nick Kaiser.
Lectures
Lecture 1
Introduction 1
- Electromagnetic Radiation
- Telescopes and Detectors
- Description of Radiation
- Radiation Emission
- Radiation and absorption by atoms and molecules
- Stellar atmospheres and spectra
- Saha's equation for equilibrium ionisation
- Hydrostatic Equilibrium
- The Main Sequence
- Stellar evolution
- White dwarfs
- The ISM: physical state and distribution
- The 'two-phase medium' model
- Neutral hydrogen 21cm emission
- Pulsar dispersion and Faraday rotation
- Kolmogorov theory of turbulence
- Scintillation and statistics of random fields
- Star Clusters and Stellar Populations
- Weighing the Disk
- Dark matter from the rotation curve
- Mass of Milky Way from the Local Group
- Peebles' dynamical analysis using least action
- Types of Galaxies
- Newtonian Gravity
- Galactic Dynamics
- Galactic Evolution