A concise textbook for a one-semester course for science and engineering majors who have taken college-level, calculus-based physics. Filling a niche between introductory astronomy books for non-science majors and advanced texts, it presents a quantitative overview of stars, exoplanets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and big-bang cosmology.
A concise textbook for a one-semester course for science and engineering majors who have taken college-level, calculus-based physics. Filling a niche between introductory astronomy books for non-science majors and advanced texts, it presents a quantitative overview of stars, exoplanets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and big-bang cosmology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stan Owocki is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, following positions at Harvard and U.C. San Diego. He has co-authored more than 300 scientific papers, with his research focussing on mass loss from luminous, massive stars. His teaching at undergraduate to graduate levels includes the development of his flagship 'Fundamental of Astrophysics' course, which form the basis for this textbook.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Stellar Properties: 1. Introduction 2. Astronomical Distances 3. Stellar Luminosity 4. Surface Temperature from a Star's Color 5. Stellar Radius from Luminosity and Temperature 6. Composition and Ionization from Stellar Spectra 7. Surface Gravity and Escape/Orbital Speed 8. Stellar Ages and Lifetimes 9. Stellar Space Velocities 10. Using Binary Systems to Determine Masses and Radii 11. Stellar Rotation 12. Light Intensity and Absorption 13. Observational Methods 14. Our Sun Part II. Stellar Structure and Evolution: 15. Hydrostatic Balance between Pressure and Gravity 16. Transport of Radiation from Interior to Surface 17. Structure of Radiative vs. Convective Stellar Envelopes 18. Hydrogen Fusion and the Mass Range of Stars 19. Post-Main-Sequence Evolution: Low-Mass Stars 20. Post-Main-Sequence Evolution: High-Mass Stars Part III. Interstellar Medium and Formation of Stars and Planets: 21. The Interstellar Medium (ISM) 22. Star Formation 23. Origin of Planetary Systems 24. Water Planet Earth 25. Extra-Solar Planets Part IV. Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies: 26. Our Milky Way Galaxy 27. External Galaxies 28. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and Quasars 29. Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation and Evolution Part V. Cosmology: 30. Newtonian Dynamical Model of Universe Expansion 31. Accelerating Universe with a Cosmological Constant 32. The Hot Big Bang 33. Eras in the Evolution of the Universe Part VI. Appendices.
Part I. Stellar Properties: 1. Introduction 2. Astronomical Distances 3. Stellar Luminosity 4. Surface Temperature from a Star's Color 5. Stellar Radius from Luminosity and Temperature 6. Composition and Ionization from Stellar Spectra 7. Surface Gravity and Escape/Orbital Speed 8. Stellar Ages and Lifetimes 9. Stellar Space Velocities 10. Using Binary Systems to Determine Masses and Radii 11. Stellar Rotation 12. Light Intensity and Absorption 13. Observational Methods 14. Our Sun Part II. Stellar Structure and Evolution: 15. Hydrostatic Balance between Pressure and Gravity 16. Transport of Radiation from Interior to Surface 17. Structure of Radiative vs. Convective Stellar Envelopes 18. Hydrogen Fusion and the Mass Range of Stars 19. Post-Main-Sequence Evolution: Low-Mass Stars 20. Post-Main-Sequence Evolution: High-Mass Stars Part III. Interstellar Medium and Formation of Stars and Planets: 21. The Interstellar Medium (ISM) 22. Star Formation 23. Origin of Planetary Systems 24. Water Planet Earth 25. Extra-Solar Planets Part IV. Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies: 26. Our Milky Way Galaxy 27. External Galaxies 28. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and Quasars 29. Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation and Evolution Part V. Cosmology: 30. Newtonian Dynamical Model of Universe Expansion 31. Accelerating Universe with a Cosmological Constant 32. The Hot Big Bang 33. Eras in the Evolution of the Universe Part VI. Appendices.
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