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ASTRONOMY 822 - ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

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1:30 p.m., Mon Wed Fri, McPherson 1045

Professor Barbara Ryden

Fall Quarter 2005

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Astronomy 822 is a graduate course dealing with continuous radiation processes of astrophysical interest.

Grading Policy:

Problem sets will be assigned on Wednesday, and will be due on the following Wednesday. The problem sets will count for 50 percent of your grade. The in-class midterm will take place on Friday, October 28. The final exam will take place on Wednesday, December 7, at 11:30am. The midterm and final will each court for 25 percent of your grade.

Lecture notes (in PDF format):

Week 1(Sep 21, 23): Introduction, Photon-Electron Interactions

Week 2 (Sep 26, 28, 30): Radiative Transfer, Blackbody Radiation, Temperature (and a Little Scattering)

Problem Set 1 (due Wednesday, October 5)

Week 3 (Oct 3, 5, 7): Stellar Atmospheres, Plane Waves,Polarization

Problem Set 2 (due Wednesday, October 12)

Week 4 (Oct 10, 12, 14): Potentials, Charged Particles, Moving Charged Particles

Problem Set 3 (due Wednesday, October 19)

Week 5 (Oct 17, 19, 21): Multi-particle Systems, Fun With Dipoles, Scattering by Electrons

Problem Set 4 (due Wednesday, October 26)

Week 6 (Oct 24, 26, 28):Special Relativity Review, Electromagnetic Transformations, MIDTERM

Week 7 (Oct 31, Nov 2, 4):Relativistic Charged Particles, Bremsstrahlung for Beginners, Advanced Bremsstrahlung

Problem Set 5 (due Wednesday, November 9)

Week 8 (Nov 7, 9):Synchrotron Radiation, Advanced Synchrotron

Week 9 (Nov 16, 18):Return of Synchrotron, Compton Scattering

Problem Set 6 (due Wednesday, November 23)

Week 10 (Nov 21, 23): Inverse Compton Scattering, Inverse Compton Cooling

Week 11 (Nov 28, 30, Dec 2): Comptonization, Dispersion in Plasmas, Faraday Rotation

Updated 2005 dec 2

ryden@astronomy.ohio-state.edu