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Foundations of Astrophysics

Foundations of Astrophysics

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year 27/08/2020
Pages 610
Version hardback
Readership level College/higher education
Language English
ISBN 9781108831956
Categories Cosmology & the universe
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Foundations of Astrophysics provides a contemporary and complete introduction to astrophysics for astronomy and physics majors. With a logical presentation and conceptual and quantitative end-of-chapter problems, the material is accessible to introductory astrophysics students taking a two-semester survey course.

Foundations of Astrophysics

Table of contents

Preface; 1. Early astronomy; 2. Emergence of modern astronomy; 3. Orbital mechanics; 4. The Earth-Moon system; 5. Interaction of radiation and matter; 6. Astronomical detection of light; 7. The Sun; 8. Overview of the solar system; 9. Earth and Moon; 10. The planets; 11. Small bodies in the solar system; 12. The solar system in perspective; 13. Properties of stars; 14. Stellar atmospheres; 15. Stellar interiors; 16. The interstellar medium; 17. Formation and evolution of stars; 18. Stellar remnants; 19. Our galaxy; 20. Galaxies; 21. Active galaxies; 22. Clusters and superclusters; 23. Cosmology; 24. History of the universe.

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