| Area of Mathematics: | Physics (EPh) |
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| Semester: | 7o | ||
| Course ID: | 72503 | ||
| Course Type: | Elective | ||
| Teaching hours per week: | Theory: 4 | Practice:0 | Laboratory: 0 |
| ECTS : | 5 | ||
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Description
- Introduction to Astronomy (History of Astronomy-The Solar System).
- Distances and Luminosities of celestial objects (Telescopes – Scales/Structures in the Universe).
- Solar radiation and the stars (Solar constant, Black body radiation).
- Physics of the Sun (Nuclear reaction, Nuclear Fusion, Photon Diffusion, Flows, Solar Phenomena).
- Star clusters and the Hertzsprung – Russell diagram.
- Structure and evolution of the stars (Main sequence, Giants Branch, Explosions of supernovae).
- Stars death (White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Black Holes).
- Double stars (Compact stars in dual systems, Accretion Discs, Jets).
Bibliography
- Bradley, W. C., Dale A. O. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Addison-Wesley; 2nd edition, 2006.
- Erika Böhm-Vitense, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, 2010, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
