College Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 15, 2024  
College Bulletin 2024-2025

ASTR 126. The Interstellar Medium


Study of the material between the stars and radiative processes in space, including both observational and theoretical perspectives on heating and cooling mechanisms, physics of interstellar dust, chemistry of interstellar molecules, magnetic fields, emission nebulae, hydrodynamics and shock waves, supernova remnants, star-forming regions, the multiphase picture of the interstellar medium.
Prerequisite: PHYS 006  and ​ASTR 016 
Recommended: PHYS 064  and PHYS 107  
Natural sciences and engineering.
1 credit.
Spring 2025. Cohen.
Catalog chapter: Physics and Astronomy  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/physics-astronomy


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