Physics 521, Stars
Stanimir Metchev, Sep 12, 2011
Homework Assignment 1
Due in class on Thursday, Sep 22, 2011
Each letter part of a problem is worth 5 points. Material covered: lectures 1–4.
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(20 points) Exercise 1.1 of Hansen, Kawaler, & Trimble (HKT; 2nd edition); same as
in 1st edition.
(20 points) Exercise 1.3 of HKT; same as in 1st edition.
(20 points) Exercise 7.4 of HKT. Reproduced here, since it is not included in the 1st
edition: “Use some decent integrator to construct a polytrope with index n in the
interval 2 ≤ n ≤ 4. The simplest method is to shoot for a solution.”