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About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations And Companions (Paperback)
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About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations And Companions (Paperback)
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'Each chapter ends with up to six student problems. There is full
set of worked answers at the end of the book but modern students
might not be enlightened by the samples of Fortran code, probably
meant to illustrate how realistic calculations might be
made.'Contemporary PhysicsOn a clear and moonless night, especially
in remote areas such as deserts, myriads of points of light cover
the sky. The great majority of them are stars, many like the Sun,
but so far away that they can only be seen as point sources of
light. The problem faced by astronomers is to find their properties
and distances, just from the light they emit. This is done by using
the knowledge of science, mainly physics, acquired from small-scale
experiments carried out on Earth. However, the stars themselves are
laboratories in which matter behaves in ways that cannot be
reproduced on Earth so, in finding out about stars, we complement
scientific knowledge gained from earthbound experimentation.This
book describes the means - some very ingenious - by which to
explore the properties, locations and planetary companions of
stars, and provides a sound foundation for further study.
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