PH2910 - Discussion Sessions

Page created 3 April 2006
Last modified 3 April 2006


This page contains a few sets of notes from the discussion sessions of course PH2910 taught by Dr. Antonella De Santo. Any mistakes found in the notes are of my sole responsability...but please report any errors you find.

Notes for:
Week 1
Binary stars
Week 2
Problems: nuclear burning; equation of motion; average temperature
Week 5
Problems: total internal energy; minimal stellar mass
Week 6
Polytropic models; the Chandrasekhar mass
Week 7
Solutions: problem sheet 2 and problem sheet 3
Week 8
The virial theorem and secular stability