Introduction to Astrophysics

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Astrophysics Courses Black Holes Courses Radio Telescopes Courses

Course Description

Overview

A Princeton astrophysicist teaches you how to solve the problems that sparked a new understanding of the universe.

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: Zooming Out to Distant Galaxies
02: Zooming In to Fundamental Particles
03: Making Maps of the Cosmos
04: The Physics Demonstration in the Sky
05: Newton’s Hardest Problem
06: Tidal Forces
07: Black Holes
08: Photons and Particles
09: Comparative Planetology
10: Optical Telescopes
11: Radio and X-Ray Telescopes
12: The Message in a Spectrum
13: The Properties of Stars
14: Planets around Other Stars
15: Why Stars Shine
16: Simple Stellar Models
17: White Dwarfs
18: When Stars Grow Old
19: Supernovas and Neutron Stars
20: Gravitational Waves
21: The Milky Way and Other Galaxies
22: Dark Matter
23: The First Atoms and the First Nuclei
24: The History of the Universe

Taught by

Joshua N. Winn

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