Astrophysics: A New Approach

by Wolfgang Kundt

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008SLV584
• ISBN13: 9783540223467
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"