Physics 360: Modern Astrophysics

Welcome to Physics 360

Instructor: Dr. Tom Abel Email: tabel@stanford.edu

Meets: Tu Th 1:30-2:50pm in 60-109

This website hosts all materials for Physics 360: Modern Astrophysics, including lectures, assignments, final projects, and resources.

Modern Astrophysics

This course is directed at first/second year graduate students interested in astrophysics research. We cover a few of the important physical processes necessary to understand astronomical objects and observations. The course will use python notebooks throughout helping with experiential learning and give the student resources to explore the code/formulas and algorithms behind the plots and animations.

Bring laptop to class

During most lectures we will do some coding and/or run some example code I provide. Please bring your laptop. We recommend to create a class specific virtual environment for your local python installation.