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Now in its third edition, this classic reference for graduate students in physics and astronomy presents a wide range of astrophysical concepts in sufficient depth to give readers a quantitative understanding of the subject. Emphasizing physical concepts, it provides readers with a series of astrophysical sketches. Completely revised and updated throughout, the book concludes with a synthesis of all the subjects discussed in the book-sketching the history of the universe from its beginning to the formation of the Sun and the planets.
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Scientific American
The approach rewards readers who just want to flip through the book as well as students who want to derive...some of the basic equations in astronomy.
Scientific American
The approach rewards readers who just want to flip through the book as well as students who want to derive...some of the basic equations in astronomy.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780387949437
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
  • Publication date: 4/28/2000
  • Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library Series
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 651
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.54 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
1 An Approach to Astrophysics 1
2 The Cosmic Distance Scale 49
3 Dynamics and Masses of Astronomical Bodies 63
4 Random Processes 97
5 Photons and Fast Particles 149
6 Electromagnetic Processes in Space 183
7 Quantum Processes in Astrophysics 241
8 Stars 287
9 Cosmic Gas and Dust 351
10 Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems 407
11 The Universe We Inhabit 439
12 The Early Universe 483
13 Origins of Structure 513
14 Life in the Universe 559
Epilogue 573
App. A Astronomical Terminology 575
App. B Astrophysical Constants 607
List of References 609
Index 635
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