Astro 580 - Cumulative Assignment List

Reading and Homework Assignments for Astro 580

Reading, Week of April 27
- HKT Chapter 8: 8.1 and 8.3 (through 8.3.3)
- Asteroseismology notes are now available online.

Reading, Week of April 20
- Bohm Vitense, Chapters 10-13
Reading, Week of April 13
- Bohm Vitense, Chapters 8-9
Reading, Week of April 6
- Bohm-Vitense, Chapters 5-8
Reading, week of March 30
- B-V Chapters 1-5
- Exam 2: April 3 - 6
Reading, week of March 23
- HK&T, 7.3 and Bohm-Vitense, Chapters 1-5
Problem Set 4: due March 26
- HK&T 7.2, 7.4, 7.6; bonus 7.1
Reading, week of March 9
- HK&T Chapter 7, through 7.2.3 and then 7.3
- L&L Chapter 10 and 11
Week of March 2
- HKT: Complete Chapter 6, start Chapter 7
- L&L: Chapter 8, Sect. 8.9
- Winget et al. paper on neutrino emission in white dwarfs
- Truran's review of nucleosynthesis in stars; in particular pages 68-71 ond 81-87 on the s- and r- process
Reading, week of February 17, 24
- H&K, Chapter 6
- L&L, Chapter 8
Problem Set 3: due March 10
- L&L, 8.1
- HK&T, 6.6, 6.8; bonus 6.9
Reading, week of February 9
- HK&T, Chapter 5
- L&L, Chapter 7
Reading, week of February 2
- HK&T, Chapter 4, 5
- L&L, Chapter 5-7
Problem Set 2: due February 11
- HK&T 3.1, 3.4, 3.9; L&L 4.5 - bonus, try HKT 3.3
  NOTE: code for 3.9 can be found here:
  - Here is FORTRAN source geteos.f
  - Executable version (Maco OS X). Right click on the link and download as a binary file 'geteos'.
  - Prefer Python? here's a link to a .py file that has the subroutine and a rudimentary driver.
  - Here is a Windoze .exe file (geteos.exe) - again right click to download as geteos.exe. Not sure if that one even works!
  - Please come see me if you can't get any of these to work.
Reading, week of January 27
- HK&T, Chapter 3
- L&L, Chapter 4
Reading, the week of January 13, 20:
- Iben, Review of stellar evolution
- HK&T, Chapter 1
- L&L, Chapter 1&2 (they're short), 3
Problem Set 1: Due January 28
- L&L, Problem 3.2, and for a bonus, 3.6
- HKT, Problems 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9