I. Physical Settings:
1. Blackholes
a. Accretion Disks
b. Coronas
2. Hot Gas
II. Statistics
1. Non-Linear Fitting of Spectral Data
a. Poisson, Gaussian Distributions
b. Error Estimation
c. Confidence Intervals
d. Levenberg-Marquardt Method of Reducing Chi-Square
e. degrees of freedom
III. Quantum Mechanics
Spectroscopy, Thermal Effects, Ionization, Blackbody Radiation,
