Barbara Ryden (Ohio State University), Bradley M. Peterson (Ohio State University)

Foundations of Astrophysics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 199mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1464g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831956
• ISBN-10: 1108831958
• Artikelnr.: 59760572

Autorenporträt

Barbara Ryden received her Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University, New Jersey. After postdocs at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, she joined the astronomy faculty at The Ohio State University, where she is now a full professor. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in teaching, at levels ranging from introductory undergraduate courses to advanced graduate seminars. She won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for her textbook Introduction to Cosmology (Cambridge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

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.