First Exam
Tuesday March 9
5:00 pm – 6:20 pm
Physics Lecture Hall
Closed book and notes
Computer-graded multiple-choice questions
Material covered:
Text chapters 16 - 22
Lectures 1-14
(January 19 through March 4)
Bring Student ID card and a #2 pencil
Practice Exam on class web page (soon)
All necessary equations and constants will be
given
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Extra Credit
Write 2 questions for the mid-term exam
multiple-choice with 5 answers
cover material of mid-term exam
accepted questions will receive 1 perfect
homework assignment score
submit as many questions as you like, but
only 1 10-point credit will be given
Deadline:
5 pm Monday March 1
early submission encouraged
Send questions via e-mail
Previous Lecture
Nucleosynthesis of elements
Stellar Populations
Nuclear binding energy – fusion only to
56
Fe
WD mass limit: 1.44 M
Sun
Inverse beta decay, Neutron Stars
Supernovae
Two types (I and II)
Light curves
Core collapse SN; SN 1987a
WD supernovae
SN remnants
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Neutron Stars
Neutron discovered in the 1930’s
its quantum mechanical properties soon
worked out
degeneracy pressure of neutron calculated
size (10 km) and mass (1-3 M
Sun
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- Fall '10
- EricGawaiser
- Neutron Stars, Neutron, General Relativity, Neutron star, Rsun, Neutron Stars Supernovae
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