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| Course name | Radiative processes in astrophysics |
| Course ID | 13.7-WF-FizD-RPA-S19 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Physics and Astronomy |
| Field of study | Physics |
| Education profile | academic |
| Level of studies | Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2019/2020 |
| Semester | 2 |
| ECTS credits to win | 5 |
| Available in specialities | Astrofizyka komputerowa |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
| Author of syllabus |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Exam |
| Class | 45 | 3 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The expansion of the knowledge of the theory of generation and propagation of radiation. To transfer messages from astrophysics allowing the students to understand on an advanced level most of the phenomena that involve the formation and evolution of the observed radiation from astronomical objects.
Knowledge of general astronomy, mathematical analysis and the basis of theoretical physics.
- The basic properties of radiation.
- The radiation flux.
- Macroscopic description of the radiation transfer.
- A stream of an isotropic source.
- The intensity of radiation and its moments.
- The energy density of radiation.
- Radiation pressure.
- The radiation transfer.
- The thermal radiation.
- Einstein coefficients.
- The scattering effects, random walking.
- The radiation diffusion.
- The basic theory of radiation field.
- Polarization and Stokes parameters.
- Radiation from moving charges.
- Lienard-Wiechart potentials.
- Radiation reaction.
- Synchrotron radiation.
- Compton scattering.
- The plasma effects.
The conventional lectures, the conventional classes.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Lecture: Oral examination; Condition assessment - a positive mark of the exam.
Classes: Written test - positive mark of the test.
Final grade: weighted average of exam and class grades (70% and 30% respectively)
[1] Notatki z wykładów.
[2] G. Rybicki, A. Lightman, Radiative processes in astrophysics, John Wiley @ sons, 1979.
[1] K. R. Lang, Astrophysical formulae, a compedium for the physicist and astrophysicist, Springer-Verlag 1980.
[2] V. L. Ginzburg, Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Pergamon Press PRES.
Modified by dr hab. Piotr Lubiński, prof. UZ (last modification: 05-03-2020 18:23)
