I was a teaching assistant for this course for three years starting in 2021 and finishing in 2023. The full course description can be found here.

Topics I covered

• Gravity
  • N-body problem
  • Keppler’s Laws
  • Binary Systems
  • 3-Body Problem
  • Lagrange points
  • Hydrostatic-equilibrium
• Special Relativity
  • Time dilation, length contraction
  • Relativistic momentum and energy
  • Doppler shifts, relativistic beaming
• Atomic structure
  • Bohr model
  • Quantum mechanics
• Radiative processes
  • Spectral line transitions
  • Kirchhoff’s Laws
  • Spectral stellar classification
• Statistical mechanics
  • Blackbody radiation
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Saha equation