ASTRON 128 Astronomy Data Science Laboratory ASTRON 160 Stellar Physics ASTRON C161 Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology ASTRON C162 Planetary Astrophysics Required (choose three of the following electives):
ASTRON C101 Order-Of-Magnitude Physics
The Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics enables students to understand the basic concepts
Theories and experimental findings in modern physics
Electricity and magnetism
And mechanics as they apply to astronomy and astrophysics.
These lecture courses come in two flavours, those which teach the fundamental physics underlying the Structure and Evolution of Stars
In the Michaelmas term, there is also a non-examinable course giving a general introduction to Astrophysics
Four of the examinable lecture courses are unique to Astrophysics
Neutrino astrophysics
,Clayton, D,D: Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
,Shapiro, S,, and Teukolsky, S: Black Holes,White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
,Longair, M,S: High Energy Astrophysics
Numerical techniques in physics and astrophysics: numerical integration and interpolation
