Page in English.
Description:
Introductory classes in Astrophysics and Nuclear Astrophysics for Master students.
Description of the course on the UCL website here.
Unless some student requests to switch to English, classes are in principle in French. However, all written material (including this website) is in English. Specific jargon will be introduced in both languages, whenever possible. (The teacher is not a native speaker of any of the two...)
I will make use of slides (that you find below) but not 100% of the course will be based on them. The blackboard will be used a lot, for example to derive all the formulas and make any necessary digression.
Students attending this course are expected to have already studied (and not have forgotten!) trigonometry, calculus, classical mechanics, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics.
Basic concepts of nuclear physics and particle physics will be introduced through the course and therefore no previous knowledge is assumed.
In general I will be available for meeting every Wednesday morning 9-12, and after each lesson for two more hours.
I can be contacted at my @uclouvain.be and @cern.ch addresses (both are equivalent).
Calendar 2015-2016:
Official calendar here.
Slides:
Note that chapters and lessons are not in 1-to-1 relationship.
My slides contain many figures taken from various sources. When the source is not indicated, usually it is either from the slides used by previous teachers or from DePoy's Astrophysics 111 course (see link below). The reason for not giving credit in the slides themselves is merely to avoid cluttering the slides with too much text. If you re-use them, please indicate the original source.
Links:
Some useful resources on the web.