Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergra-duate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate …

This course conveys the quantitative foundations of astrophysics with the hope of both satisfying and stimulating curiosity about the subject. The most important prerequisites are the desire to understand …

Astrophysics: effort to understand the nature of astronomical objects. Union of quite a few branches of physics — gravity, E&M, stat mech, quantum, fluid dynamics, relativity, nuclear, plasma — all matter, …

AST 320 { Introduction to Astrophysics Marten H. van Kerkwijk Last update: April 3, 2023

There are five main chapters to this document – one each to introduce the astronomy and planetary science, the cosmology and the physics background, plus two chapters of mathematics.

Cosmology is the study of dynamics of the entire Universe as a single dynamical system. 1. Cosmological Principle and dynamics. The Universe is homogeneous: it is uniform on large scales. …

We are grateful for reviews of individual chapters by instructors with experience in teaching astrophysics at this level, notably Byron D. Anderson, Phil Armitage, Don Bord, Tereasa Brainerd, David Cohen, …