Astrophysics & Cosmology
(Advanced High School, Introductory College Course)
By Roger Muncaster
August 1997
Nelson Thornes, UK
ISBN: 0748728651
116 pages, Illustrated, 7 7/8 x 10 5/8"
$35.00 paper original
OUT OF PRINT
Overview of units of distance. The universe, galaxies, stars. Ptolemaic model. Copernican model. Kepler's laws. Newton's laws of gravitation. Black-body radiation. Apparant magniture. Inverse square law. Absolute magnitude. H-R Diagram. Calculation of stellar distances. The lives of stars. Doppler effect. The expanding universe--Hubble's Law, Big bang, Hubble Constant, Matter & Antimatter, Olbers' Paradox, Qusars. Optical astronomy. Radio & radar astronomy. Optical detectors. Theory of Special Relativity. Answers to questions. Index.
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