Radiative Processes

Astro 305

TTh 4:30-5:50 AAC 107

The textbook for this course is Rybicki and Lightman: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics J. Wiley 1979

Some supplemental notes: (sketchy and subject to revision, not intended for public consumption)

Radiative Transfer

Statistical Mechanics

Thermal Physics

Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Classical E&M

Relativity

Classical and Semiclassical Oscillator

Compton Scattering

Bremsstrahlung

Synchrotron

Plasma Effects