Enrico Fermi
Fall 2016 Astronomy 596/496 APA August 25

Lecture 1

Lecture Notes: pdf file
Yakov Zel'dovich

Welcome

Course Overview

Career: Graduate Expectations

Order-of-Magnitude Estimation

  • why estimate?
  • the spirit of order-of-magnitude
  • first problem

Colloquium

the Star Child:   next step in evolution

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Brian D. Fields
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