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Astrophysics. A Primer

By Wolfgang Kundt

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
ISBN
9783540417484, 3540417486
Open Library ID
OL9057218M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (7926688 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
97\97
Topic
Physics
Library
mexmat
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

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 - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence should be aware of early interpretations. Special chaptes 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. The author compares mainstream interpretations with new and even controversial ones he wishes to emphasize.

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