| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Keeton, Charles | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-20T10:17:49Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-20T10:17:49Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4614-9236-8 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/144 | - |
| dc.description | I hope this book will help you learn to think like an astrophysicist. Rather than
memorizing facts about specific astronomical systems, you will learn to break the
systems into pieces you can analyze and understand using material that should
be familiar from introductory physics and vector calculus. (The necessary physics
topics are reviewed as they arise; vital aspects of vector calculus are reviewed in
Appendix A.) Then you will be equipped to investigate interesting systems that you
encounter in the future, even if they are not addressed in this book. Astrophysics
is a dynamic field of research—and one in which you can understand the physical
principles that underlie even the newest discoveries. So let’s have fun! | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This book is designed to show how physical principles can be used at the advanced
undergraduate level to understand astronomical systems such as planets, stars,
galaxies, and the universe as a whole. It emerges from a pair of courses at Rutgers
University that attract not just astrophysics students but a broad audience of physics
and engineering students. The organization is therefore “physics-first”: we start with
key principles of physics and then examine applications to astronomical systems.
At Rutgers, each half of the book constitutes a coherent semester-length course;
while there is a little overlap (notably with cosmology in Chaps. 11 and 20),
the two halves are largely independent and complementary. Part I focuses on
gravity, because this is the dominant force in many astronomical systems and it
governs many types of motions we observe. The goal of Chaps. 2–11 is to develop
a progressively richer understanding of gravity and the way astrophysicists use
gravitational motion to investigate mass. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics | en_US |
| dc.title | Principles of Astrophysics | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Using Gravity and Stellar Physics to Explore the Cosmos | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE
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