Introduction to Astrophysics I, 29:119
Fall, 2006
Fourth Homework Set...September 29, 2006.
Due October 5, 2006

Show calculations and give reasons for your answers. Don't go around confused and despondent; if you do not know how to get started, ask me for help. All problem numbers refer to the first edition of the book.

(1) Problem 3.12

(2) Problem 5.7

(3) Problem 5.8

(4) Problem 5.10

(5) Problem 5.11

(6) Problem 5.14

(7) Problem 5.16

(8) What are the spectroscopic designations of the lowest-lying energy levels of the nitrogen atom? Exclude those states which would violate the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Comment on those states which you have so excluded.