ASTROPHYSICS 1996 SYLLABUS



MAJOR TOPIC SUBJECTS CHAPTER (SECTION)


Zeilik Giancoli
SPECTROSCOPY light and spectra; Kirchhoff's laws 5(1, 2, 5) 22(3,5);
24(3,4,6,7)
and continuous spectra: the black body laws 5(3, 4) 27(1)
STELLAR examples: stars and planets
PROPERTIES parallax and distance 19(1-3)
magnitude and brightness
line spectra: atomic structure 5(6-7) 27(9)
box 7-2, 13(8,9)
& the H-R diagram 19(4-7)
Doppler effect 5(8) 12(8)
Hubble's law and the expansion of the universe 26(3)
binary stars: orbits and Kepler's laws 4(1-3)] 4(4-8) 5(5-7,9)
binary stars: spectroscopic and eclipsing 19(8-10)
galactic rotation curves and dark matter
line broadening

STELLAR how stars work 10(1-2), 13(5-7)
STRUCTURE stellar interiors: nuclear energy generation 18(6-9) 30(1,2), 31(1,3)
Box 21-1 32(3-6)
the solar neutrino problem
energy transfer: radiation and convection 14(7-9)
stellar atmospheres: the quiet sun 18(1-3)
the active sun: sunspots and magnetic fields 18(4-5) 20(1-6)


STELLAR birth (protostar) in interstellar space 20
EVOLUTION maturity (main sequence) and old age (red giant) 21
death of low-mass stars:
white dwarfs and planetary nebulae 22(1-3)
death of high-mass stars: supernovae 22(4-9)
remnants of middle-mass stars: neutron stars 23
death remnants of high-mass stars: black holes 24


GALACTIC our home galaxy: The Milky Way 25
STRUCTURE the size of our galaxy: cepheids 21(6)
and normal galaxies 26
EVOLUTION galactic violence: quasars 27


COSMOLOGY present: expansion: the Hubble flow 26(3), 28(1)
and the future: expansion forever or eventual re-collapse? 28 (5-9)
UNIVERSE past: the Big Bang, the origin of energy, space, and time 28 (2-4), 29