Lecture Topics

• The Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram
• Life cycle of stars

Main Points

• The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram; life cycle of of solar-type star; red giant phase, white dwarfs; life cycle of a massive star; supernovae, neutron stars, pulsars and black holes. Luminosity-mass relation.

Assigned readings
and bibliography

Required Readings

• Chapter 5 and notes from class (see also http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162 Unit 2 and http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/astro101/index.htm>)

Other useful resources

• SETI on-line module (/tutorial)
• Lectures in Quantum Mechanics (http://www.physics.gatech.edu/gcuo/lectures/index.html)
• On Quantum Mechanics, see also: AST101 notes (from Cornell U.) (Lectures 7-9) (http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/astro101/lectures/)