A1 · Radiation & matter
A 23-module path through a1 · radiation & matter, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Blackbody Radiation and the Planck Law
- Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien Displacement Laws
- Specific Intensity and Radiative Flux
- The Equation of Radiative Transfer
- Optical Depth
- Opacity and Absorption Coefficients
- Emission and Source Function
- Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium
- Kirchhoff's Laws and Thermal Emission
- The Boltzmann Equation
- The Saha Equation
- Spectral Line Formation
- Line Broadening Mechanisms
- Curve of Growth
- Oscillator Strengths and Einstein Coefficients
- Bremsstrahlung (Free-Free Emission)
- Synchrotron Radiation
- Inverse-Compton Scattering
- Thomson and Compton Scattering
- Synchrotron Self-Absorption
- Radiative Diffusion and the Rosseland Mean Opacity
- Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
- Comptonization and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect