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Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, 1st ed. 1987. Corr. 2nd printing): Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja, Markku... Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, 1st ed. 1987. Corr. 2nd printing)
Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja, Markku Putanen, Karl J Donner
R1,743 Discovery Miles 17 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The main purpose of this book is to serve as a university textbook for a first course in astronomy. However, we believe that the audience will also include many serious ama teurs, who often find the popular texts too trivial. The lack of a good handbook for am ateurs has become a problem lately, as more and more people are buying personal com puters and need exact, but comprehensible, mathematical formalism for their programs. The reader of this book is assumed to have only a standard high-school knowledge of mathematics and physics (as they are taught in Finland); everything more advanced is usually derived step by step from simple basic principles. The mathematical background needed includes plane trigonometry, basic differential and integral calculus, and (only in the chapter dealing with celestial mechanics) some vector calculus. Some mathematical concepts the reader may not be familiar with are briefly explained in the appendices or can be understood by studying the numerous exercises and examples. However, most of the book can be read with very little knowledge of mathematics, and even if the reader skips the mathematically more involved sections, (s)he should get a good overview of the field of astronomy. This book has evolved in the course of many years and through the work of several authors and editors. The first version consisted of lecture notes by one of the editors (Oja).

Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, 5th ed. 2007): Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, 5th ed. 2007)
Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner
R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented sections on the solar system and extrasolar planets as well as a new chapter on astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.

Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 6th ed. 2017): Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja,... Fundamental Astronomy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 6th ed. 2017)
Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroeger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner
R2,301 R2,141 Discovery Miles 21 410 Save R160 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented sections on the solar system and extrasolar planets as well as a new chapter on astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.

The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover): Mauri Valtonen, Hannu Karttunen The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover)
Mauri Valtonen, Hannu Karttunen
R3,227 Discovery Miles 32 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do three celestial bodies move under their mutual gravitational attraction? This problem has been studied by Isaac Newton and leading mathematicians over the last two centuries. Poincare's conclusion, that the problem represents an example of chaos in nature, opens the new possibility of using a statistical approach. For the first time this book presents these methods in a systematic way, surveying statistical as well as more traditional methods. The book begins by providing an introduction to celestial mechanics, including Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods, and both the two and restricted three body problems. It then surveys statistical and perturbation methods for the solution of the general three body problem, providing solutions based on combining orbit calculations with semi-analytic methods for the first time. This book should be essential reading for students in this rapidly expanding field and is suitable for students of celestial mechanics at advanced undergraduate and graduate level.

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