Fall 2023 Physics GR8012 section 001

ASTROPHYSICS II

Call Number 13314
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
814 Pupin Laboratories
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Charles J Hailey
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: Prerequisites; GR6011, another introductory astrophysics course or the instructor's permission; basic General Relativity or familiarity with tensors in flat space. A continuation of G6011. Likely topics include shocks and their application to supernovae; pulsar wind nebulae; atomic physics of astrophysical plasmas; accretion onto magnetized neutron stars and white dwarfs; thick accretion disks, non-thermal X-ray generation processes; particle acceleration and propagation; gravitational wave radiation; magnetars.
Web Site Vergil
Department Physics
Enrollment 2 students (10 max) as of 10:06AM Sunday, April 28, 2024
Subject Physics
Number GR8012
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, SIPA
Campus Morningside
Section key 20233PHYS8012G001