Physics 239: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
Welcome to the website for Physics 239. Here you can find links
to the syllabus, assignments, lecture notes, and other useful
material.
Announcements:
- 10/29/18: Please be sure to fill out the doodle
poll to
reschedule class the week of Nov 5.
Lecture Slides/Notes:
- Lecture 1 Slides - Overview of class and describing radiation fields
- Lecture 2 - Equation of radiative transfer and Planck spectrum
- Lecture 3 Slides -
Scientific computing practices, two-level atom, scattering
- Lecture 4 - Scattering, solving the radiative transfer
equation
- Lecture 5 - Radiative transfer hack day with Jeremy
- Lecture 6 - Last bit of radiative transfer, then classical EM description of light
- Lecture 7 - Radiation from accelerating charges
- Lecture 8 - Radiation from accelerating charges, Thompson
scattering, etc.
Stella's Notes: Stella is very generous to let me post her
latex'ed notes from lecture. I have not always had the chance to
proofread these. Many thanks to Stella.
Useful Links:
Acknowledgements: In putting together the lecture slides and notes I
looked at many sources. Thanks in particular to UC Berkeley Astro for
maintaining the AstroBaki
site.