Notes on some of the material taught in this course can be found below.
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Lecture Notes
Important Astronomical Scales
The Astronomical Magnitude Scale
Gravity
The Cosmological Metric
Recommended reading
Equation of State
Recommended reading
Matter and Radiation
Recommended reading
Polytropic Stars
Isothermal Sphere
A Rough Guide to Stellar Structure
Recommended reading
Stellar structure: Mechanical Equilibrium
Radiative Energy Transport
Convective Energy Transport
Recommended reading
Equations of Stellar Structure and Evolution
Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Evolution
Post Main-Sequence Evolution of Stars
Stellar Evolution in the HR diagram
Recommended reading
Parametrized evolutionary tracks
Binary Stars
Recommended reading
Shock waves and particle acceleration
Recommended reading
The Interstellar Medium
Jeans' Instability
Recommended reading
Stellar systems: two-body relaxation
Stellar Dynamics: Galaxies
Recommended reading
Cosmology I: kinematics
Cosmology II: dynamics
Cosmology III: thermodynamics
Recommended reading
Assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 6
Assignment 7
Assignment 8
Assignment 9
Assignment 10
Assignment 11
Forbidden Transitions by
Kanhaiya Pandey
Star Formation by
Akash Bhattacharya
Inflation in the Early Universe by
Tulasi Nandan Parashar
Retarded Potentials and
Gravitational Lensing by
Siddhartha SinhaSeminars and Essays
Available below are texts of seminars and essays contributed by
some of the students of the course:
Compton Scattering and Red Giant Stars by M. Sampoorna
Black Body Radiation and Star Clusters by Shashikant
Plasma Oscillations and Spiral Density Waves by Abhay Karnataki
Shock Waves and Dark Matter by Ekta
Synchrotron Radiation and Active Galaxies by Manju Sudhakar
Limb Darkening and X-ray Binaries by M.C. Ramadevi