Lectures related to Exoplanets

Signal of the Day: Exoplanet Hunting

Delves into exoplanet hunting, from the first discovery to the transit method and the role of digital signal processing.

Interplanetary Trajectories: Concepts and Strategies

Explores interplanetary trajectories, including departure strategies, sphere of influence, and orbit insertion around the destination planet.

Space Mission Design: Interplanetary Trajectories and Operations

Discusses space mission design, focusing on interplanetary trajectories, operations, and aerodynamic braking techniques.

Central Motion: Forces and Orbits

Covers moment of a force, angular momentum, and central motion in physics, including Kepler's laws and Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

Extrinsic Variable Stars

Covers extrinsic stellar variability, the history of double stars, microlensing, and extrasolar planet detection.

Gravitational Forces

Covers advanced physics topics related to gravitational forces and Johannes Kepler's contributions to understanding planetary motion.

Astrophysical Objects: Static Systems

Explores spherically symmetric and static astrophysical objects, including black holes and the modeling of matter.

Design Discussions, Documentation

Explores design discussions and documentation in software development, emphasizing scientific programming and code documentation tools like Doxygen and Sphinx.

Energy Balance of Planets

Explores the energy balance of planets, emphasizing the Earth's factors affecting its overall energy equilibrium.

Interplanetary Trajectories: Orbital Characteristics

Covers interplanetary trajectories, sphere of influence, and orbital characteristics of planets.

Architecture Trade-offs in a Planet-scale Queueing System

Explores the trade-offs in a planet-scale queueing system, emphasizing the importance of relaxing semantics to manage complexity.

Angular Momentum: Conservation and Applications

Explores angular momentum conservation and its applications in rotational motion, including Kepler's laws and torque relationships.

MHD Turbulence and Dynamo Instabilities

Explores observational facts and the need for dynamos in generating magnetic fields.

Geodesics in Schwarzschild Spacetime

Explores geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime, circular orbits, and the perihelion advance in General Relativity.

Introduction to Astrophysics: Hydrostatic Equilibrium

Covers hydrostatic equilibrium, pressure profile, mean molecular mass, and atmosphere retention conditions in astrophysics.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Covers space mission design, spacecraft energy, orbits, and maneuvers, including gravity effects, tethers, and interplanetary trajectories.

Introduction to Astrophysics: The Solar System

Covers astronomical units, light years, parallax, exoplanets, stars, nebulae, and galaxy clusters.

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Space Missions and Solar Radiation: Insights and Innovations

Discusses recent space missions, solar radiation effects, and key concepts in spacecraft design and orbital mechanics.

Service-Oriented Architecture: Business Alignment Solutions

Explores solutions for business and IT alignment, traceability, regulation heuristics, the Light Aviation Market case study, Solar System evolution, system definition, and epistemological perspectives.