Overview
- Unique in covering all the basic tools and numbers required for an understanding of modern astrophysics, including a representative set of formulae, in a concise manner
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 wary of early interpretations. Special chapters are devoted to magnetic and radiation processes, supernovae, 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 for the precise interpretation of frontline phenomena in astrophysical research. The author compares mainstream interpretations with new and even controversial ones he wishes to emphasize.
The second edition includes numerous updates throughout the book and, in addition, it contains a list of alternative explanations to astrophysical findings that can be seen as a serious testing ground for young scientists.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The author seems to be of the [Fred] Hoyle school of independent thinkers, which is no bad thing, and if a different perspective on a topic might shed some illumination, then having a copy in the departmental library may be a worthwhile investment." (The Observatory, 2002)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astrophysics
Book Subtitle: A New Approach
Authors: Wolfgang Kundt
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138410
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22346-7Published: 22 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43695-6Published: 25 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26983-0Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)