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Princeton - Graduate School Announcement - Department of Astrophysical Sciences |
 | | Plasma physics provides the scientific basis for the attainment of an effectively unlimited energy source through controlled thermonuclear fusion as well as a framework for interpreting many fascinating laboratory and astrophysical phenomena. |
 | | Topics include a survey of physical processes important for stellar interiors (equation of state, transport phenomena, nuclear reactions); macroscopic properties of stars and their stability; evolution of single and binary stars; mass loss and accretion of matter; and accretion disks. |
 | | Discussion of the important physical processes in the interstellar medium, including heating and cooling, atomic and molecular excitation, chemical reactions, ionization and recombination, radiative transfer, fluid dynamics, and physics of interstellar dust. |
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