| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | General Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Bachelor studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Fundamentals of Astrophysics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Dragana Ilic | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Stanislav Milosevic | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | Dusan Onic | |||||||||
| ECTS | 4 | Status (required/elective) | compulsory | |||||||
| Access requirements | ||||||||||
| Aims of the course | Aquiring general knowledge in astrophysics | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | After the course student knows: i) the funadmentals of astrophysics, ii) all physical laws and understand the important physical process in the astrophysical objects, iii) stellar properties and evolution, physics of stellar systems, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. After the course, the student is capable to attend more advance courses in astronomy and astrophysics. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Electromagnetic emission of the astrophysical objects, its properties and detection techniques. Radiation mechanisms. Influence of the Earth atmoshphere to astronomical observations. Optical and radio telescopes. Sattelite astronomy. Stars. Basic properties of stars. Aparent magnitude and apsolute magnitude. Color index. Luminosity. Stellar spectra and spectral classification. HR diagram. Spectral parallax. Stellar structure and general equations. Sources of stellar energy (gravitational contraction and termonuclear reactions). The problem of neutrino. The Sun. Basic properties. Solar inner structure and atmoshpere. Solar wind. Solar magnetic filed and solar activity. Binary stars. Classification. Mass-Luminosity relation. Dynamical parallax. Determination of the mass of binary stars. Compact binaries. Star clusters, types and basic properties. Our Galaxy - Milky Way. The shape and structure. Stellar population. Galactic rotation and dark matter problem. Interstellar matter, compostion and structure. Reddening of stars. Nebulae. Stellar evolution. Basic stages of stellar evolution (before main sequence, main sequence, after main sequence and final stage of evvolution). Evolution of compact binaries. Variable starts, basic properties and classification. Pulsating variable stars. Novae and supernovae. Extragalactic astronomy. Morphological classification of galaxies. Hubble law. Physical classification of galaxies. Active galactic nuclei. Cosmological models. Big bang. Cosmic microway background emission. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Tutorials, problem solving in the above listed fields. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Vukicevic-Karabin, M., Atanackovic, O.: Opsta astrofizika, Zavod za udzbenike, Beograd (2010) | |||||||||
| 2 | tutorials: http://nikolavitas.blogspot.com/p/old-course-materials-in-serbo-croatian.html | |||||||||
| 3 | tutorials: http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~donic/vezbe.html | |||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Frontal, interactive, tutorials, test | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | 30 | |||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 30 | ||||||||
| test | 30 | |||||||||
| presentations | ||||||||||