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Astrophysics for physicists /
Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Stellar astrophysics I : basic theoretical ideas and observational data
- Stellar astrophysics II : nucleosynthesis and other advanced topics
- End states of stellar collapse
- Our galaxy and its interstellar matter
- Elements of stellar dynamics
- Elements of plasma astrophysics
- Extragalactic astronomy
- The spacetime dynamics of the universe
- The thermal history of the universe
- Elements of tensors and general relativity
- Some applications of general relativity
- Relativistic cosmology
- Appendix A : Values of various quantities
- Appendix B : Astrophysics and the Nobel prize.