Status: Approved for review release; not yet approved for instructional use. See review-report.md for full findings and outstanding items.
Course Planning
- Syllabus: syllabus.html
- Schedule: schedule.html
- Reference log: reference-log.md
- Review report: review-report.md
- Course manifest: course-manifest.json
Lectures
- Lecture 01: The Equations of Stellar Structure: Mass, Momentum, and What Remains — slides · notes
- Lecture 02: Equation of State and Opacity: What a Photon Fights Against — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: Radiative Energy Transport: How Heat Actually Gets Out — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: Convection and the Schwarzschild Criterion — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Nuclear Reactions I: The Proton-Proton Chain and the Gamow Peak — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Nuclear Reactions II: The CNO Cycle and Why Massive Stars Burn So Differently — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: The Mass-Luminosity Relation and Main-Sequence Lifetimes — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Stellar Models: Polytropes and Homology Relations — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: Post-Main-Sequence Evolution: Shell Burning and the Red Giant Branch — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: Helium Burning: The Triple-Alpha Process and the Horizontal Branch — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: Late Stages of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars: AGB, Planetary Nebulae, and White Dwarf Formation — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: Electron Degeneracy and the Chandrasekhar Mass — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: Massive Star Evolution and the Core-Collapse Supernova Mechanism — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Synthesis: Nucleosynthesis and Compact Remnants Across This Course — slides · notes
Labs
- Lab 01: Building a Two-Zone Model of the Sun: Equation of State, Opacity, and Hydrostatic Pressure
- Lab 02: Radiative vs. Convective Energy Transport in the Solar Envelope
- Lab 03: The Gamow Peak and the pp-Chain/CNO-Cycle Crossover Temperature
- Lab 04: Mass-Luminosity Relation and Main-Sequence Lifetimes for Real Stars
- Lab 05: Dating the Hyades Open Cluster from Its Main-Sequence Turnoff
- Lab 06: Sirius B and the Chandrasekhar Mass
- Lab 07: Capstone: PSR J0348+0432 and the Physics of Core Collapse
Problem Sets
- PS 01: ASTR 330 Problem Set 01: Equation of State and Opacity for Alpha Centauri B — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 02: ASTR 330 Problem Set 02: Radiative Gradient and the Schwarzschild Criterion for Sirius A’s Envelope — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 03: ASTR 330 Problem Set 03: The pp-Chain/CNO Crossover Temperature for Alpha Centauri A — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 04: ASTR 330 Problem Set 04: Extrapolating the Mass-Luminosity-Lifetime Scaling to a Hypothetical Massive Star — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 05: ASTR 330 Problem Set 05: Hyades Cluster Structure and Dynamical Timescales — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 06: ASTR 330 Problem Set 06: The Chandrasekhar Mass for a Helium-Core White Dwarf — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 07: ASTR 330 Problem Set 07: Capstone Synthesis: Verifying PSR J0348+0432’s Total Mass from Its Orbit — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
Source Code and Data
- Generator scripts: src/generate_astr330_content.py, src/generate_astr330_labs_psets.py
- Datasets: data/README.md