Classes were mostly remote in Fall 2020, and I ended up recording "asynchronous" lecture videos for nearly all of the material of RDP. I put them onto YouTube, but at the end of the Fall 2020 semester I locked down the channel so that one can only find the videos if one has the links. So, here are the links!
(I'll repeat the warning I give on the main course page: Since last year, some topics have been expanded and others have been reduced in scope. Just watching these videos is no substitute for coming to class in Fall 2021.)
- Lecture set 01
- Playlist: introductory course overview.
- Lecture set 02
- Lecture set 03
- Lecture set 04
- Playlist: kinetic theory, Liouville's theorem.
- Playlist: Boltzmann collision term; Fokker-Planck equation.
- Lecture set 05
- Playlist: fluid moments of the Boltzmann equation.
- Playlist: adiabatic thermodynamics; intro to MHD; magnetic pressure and tension.
- Playlist: ideal and resistive MHD; the induction equation.
- Lecture set 06
- Playlist: ideal MHD applications; potential and force-free fields.
- Playlist: ideal MHD applications: MHD waves and instabilities.
- Lecture set 07
- Playlist: transport coefficients in non-ideal MHD.
- Playlist: beyond MHD; magnetic-field anisotropies and ambipolar diffusion.
- Lecture set 08
- Playlist: Dynamics: work, energy, and Euler-Lagrange theory.
- Playlist: 2-body Keplerian motion derived from Lagrangians.
- Playlist: astrophysical applications of 2-body orbits.
- Lecture set 09
- Playlist: Finish 2-body applications. 3-body problem: Roche lobes, Hill stability.
- Playlist: Trojan Lagrange points, tidal distortions, tidal heating.
- Lecture set 10
- Playlist: N-body gravitational dynamics; collisional relaxation; gravitational focusing.
- Playlist: N-body collisionless potentials; Oort constants; the Milky Way.
- Playlist: N-body virial theorem; applications in stars and galaxy clusters.
- Lecture set 11
- Playlist: radiation processes: intensity, flux, and magnitudes.
- Playlist: radiation moments; Bose-Einstein statistics; equation of radiative transfer.
- Playlist: opacity sources; optical depth; LTE and non-LTE.
- Playlist: solving the RT equation for a gray atmosphere; exploring its properties.
- Lecture set 12
- Playlist: radiative transfer in non-gray, non-LTE, and non-plane-parallel cases.
- Playlist: radiative transfer for spectral lines: opacities and Einstein relations.
- Playlist: spectrum formation and multiple sources of line broadening.
- Playlist: ionization and recombination; irradiated planetary atmospheres.
- Playlist: greenhouse effect; radiation pressure; Poynting-Robertson drag.