Theoretical Astrophysics - Couverture souple

Padmanabhan, T

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521566320 ISBN 13 : 9780521566322

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative book has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and choose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, nuclear physics, and other key concepts. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle research in astrophysics and cosmology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thanu Padmanabhan is a Professor at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India. His research interests are Gravitation, Cosmology and Quantum Theory. He has published over one hundred technical papers in these areas and written four books - Structure Formation in the Universe, Cosmology and Astrophysics Through Problems, After the First Three Minutes, and, together with JV Narlikar, Gravity, Gauge Theories and Quantum Cosmology. He is a member of Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and International Astronomical Union. He has received numerous awards including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physics (1996) and the Millennium Medal (1999) awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. Professor Padmanabhan has also written more than one hundred popular science articles, a comic strip serial, and several regular columns on astronomy, recreational mathematics, and history of science which have appeared in international journals and papers. He is married with one daughter and lives in Pune, India. His hobbies include chess, origami and recreational mathematics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521566320
• ISBN 13: 9780521566322
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible