ASTRO 3302 - The Life of Stars: From Birth to Death

(PBS-AS, PHS-AS)

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisites: Completed (or be co-registered in) PHYS 2214 or PHYS 2218, and completed MATH 1120 or MATH 1920. Additional physics and mathematics will be covered as needed in class. There are no Astronomy prerequisites.

T. Herter, I. Wasserman.

This course covers the formation and birth of stars, their lives on the main sequence and their evolution of the main sequence to their final end-states as white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes.