
Astrophysics
A New Approach
Wolfgang Kundt(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 9. October 2001
Book
Hardback
IX, 184 pages
978-3-540-41748-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Devised for a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology, this acclaimed text offers among the most concise and most critical ones of extant works. Special chapters are devoted to magnetic and radiation processes, disks, black-hole candidacy, bipolar flows, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts, image distortions, and special sources. At the same time, planet earth is viewed as the arena for life, with plants and animals having evolved to homo sapiens during cosmic time. This text is unique in covering the basic qualitative and quantitative tools, formulae as well as numbers, needed to for the precise interpretation of frontline phenomena.
Reviews / Votes
From the reviews:
"The author seems to be of the [Fred] Hoyle school of independent thinkers, which is no bad thing, and if a different perspective on a topic might shed some illumination, then having a copy in the departmental library may be a worthwhile investment." (The Observatory, 2002)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
50 b&w and 4 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-41748-4 (9783540417484)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-04347-9
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Content
1. Cosmic Structures.- 2. Gas Dynamics.- 3. Radiation and Spectra.- 4. Thermal Processes.- 5. Magnetic Fields.- 6. Disks.- 7. Star Formation.- 8. Stellar Evolution.- 9. Degenerate Stars.- 10. High-Energy Radiation.- 11. Bipolar Flows.- 12. Image Distortions.- 13. Special Sources.- 14. Astrobiology.- 15. Answers to Problems.- References.- Plates.