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Astrophysics and Cosmology

Astrophysics and Cosmology. Instructor: Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur. The course covers lessons in Kepler's Law, The Solar System, Binary Systems, Tidal Forces and the Earth Moon System, Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Radiation, Virial Theorem and its Application to Stars, Stellar Physics, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Galaxies, The Expanding Universe, Distances and the Hubble Parameter, CMBR and Thermal History, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 29 - The Cosmological Space-Time


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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Kepler's Law
Lecture 03 - The Solar System
Lecture 04 - The Solar System (cont.)
Lecture 05 - Binary Systems
Lecture 06 - Binary Systems (cont.)
Lecture 07 - Tidal Forces and the Earth Moon System
Lecture 08 - Fluid Mechanics
Lecture 09 - Hydrostatics and the Solar Wind
Lecture 10 - Radiative Transfer
Lecture 11 - Radiative Transfer (cont.)
Lecture 12 - Thermal Radiation
Lecture 13 - Thermal Radiation and the Sun
Lecture 14 - Virial Theorem and its Application to Stars
Lecture 15 - Stars: Magnitudes and the H-R Diagram
Lecture 16 - Stellar Physics I
Lecture 17 - Stellar Physics II
Lecture 18 - Stellar Physics III
Lecture 19 - Stellar Physics IV
Lecture 20 - Stellar Physics V
Lecture 21 - White Dwarfs
Lecture 22 - White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
Lecture 23 - Galaxies
Lecture 24 - Galaxies and the Expanding Universe
Lecture 25 - The Expanding Universe
Lecture 26 - Dynamics of the Expanding Universe
Lecture 27 - Dynamics of the Expanding Universe (cont.)
Lecture 28 - The Expanding Universe and the Cosmological Metric
Lecture 29 - The Cosmological Space-Time
Lecture 30 - Distances: Proper Distance, Angular Diameter Distance, Luminosity Distance
Lecture 31 - Distances: Luminosity Distance (cont.)
Lecture 32 - Distances and the Hubble Parameter
Lecture 33 - Distances, the Hubble Parameter and Dark Energy (cont.)
Lecture 34 - CMBR and Thermal History
Lecture 35 - CMBR and Thermal History (cont.)
Lecture 36 - CMBR and Thermal History (cont.)
Lecture 37 - Thermal History, Expansion Rate and Neutrino Mass
Lecture 38 - Thermal History: Neutrino Mass, Nucleosynthesis
Lecture 39 - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Lecture 40 - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (cont.)