Astronomy: A Physical Perspective
by Marc L. KutnerEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-18
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This revised and updated comprehensive introduction to astronomical objects and phenomena applies basic physical principles to a variety of situations. Students learn how to relate everyday physics to the astronomical world with the help of useful equations, chapter summaries, worked examples and end-of-chapter problem sets. It will be suitable for undergraduate students taking a first course in astronomy, and assumes a basic knowledge of physics with calculus.
Table of Contents
| 1. Introduction | |
| Part I. Properties of Ordinary Stars: 2. Continuous radiation from stars | |
| 3. Spectral Lines in stars | |
| 4. Telescopes | |
| 5. Binary stars and stellar masses | |
| 6. The Sun: a typical star | |
| Part II. Relativity: 7. Special relativity | |
| 8. General relativity | |
| Part III. Stellar Evolution: 9. The main sequence | |
| 10. Stellar old age | |
| 11. The death of high mass stars | |
| 12. Evolution in close binaries | |
| 13. Clusters of stars | |
| Part IV. The Milky Way: 14. Contents of the interstellar medium | |
| 15. Star formation | |
| 16. The Milky Way galaxy | |
| Part V. The Universe at Large: 17. Normal galaxies | |
| 18. Clusters of galaxies | |
| 19. Active galaxies | |
| 20. Cosmology | |
| 21. The Big Bang | |
| Part VI. The Solar System: 22. Overview of the solar system | |
| 23. The Earth and Moon | |
| 24. The inner planets | |
| 25. The outer planets | |
| 26. Minor bodies in the solar system | |
| 27. The origin of life | |
| Appendices. |
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