http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/interacting-binary-systems daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/astrophysics-i-spring-2006 Size and time scales. Historical astronomy. Astronomical instrumentation. Stars: spectra and classification. Stellar structure equations and survey of stellar evolution. Stellar oscillations. Degenerate and collapsed stars; radio pulsars. Interacting binary systems; accretion disks, x-ray sources. Gravitational lenses; dark matter. Interstellar medium: HII regions, supernova remnants, molecular clouds, dust; radiative transfer; Jeans' mass; star formation. High-energy astrophysics: Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, cosmic rays. Galactic stellar distributions and populations; Oort constants; Oort limit; and globular clusters. Chakrabarty, Deepto Science and Technology 2008-01-27T10:00:48 Course Related Materials