READING ASSIGNMENTS



Read the notes that I have placed in the blue loose leaf binder that is on a shelf in the
bookcases in the Physics Department seminar room.

You may find the following useful.  They may be found in the Library:

Motz 
pgs. 250 - 341, stellar spectroscopy and atmospheres
pgs 373 - 386 , stellar interiors and evolution

Pasachoff and Kutner:  pgs. 15 -59, magnitudes and general background
                                        pgs. 245 - 334, stellar evolution

Carroll and Ostlie:  pgs. 223 - 240
                                 pgs. 241 -250, the H-R Diagram
                                 pgs. 255 - 306 Radiation Theory

Swihart:  pgs.   1 - 30, radiation theory, black-body radiation, Kirchhoff's Laws, Bohr Atom,
                                     thermodynamics of radiation.
               pgs.  41 - 47, trigonometric parallax, magnitudes
               pgs.  95 - 99, color indices and temperature,.
               pgs.  101 - 111, stellar spectra and the H-R Diagram
               pgs.  112 - 119,  radiation transfer equation
               pgs.  130 - 138, line formation theory, curve of growth.
               pgs.  166 - 170, interstellar absorption and reddening.

Feel free to browse amongst the many other astronomy and astrophysics books in the library stacks.
 

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