Astrophysics for Physicists

Name: Astrophysics for Physicists
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ISBN: 9780521815536

ISBN-10: 0521815533

ISBN-13: 9780521815536

Edition: 2010

Authors: Arnab Rai Choudhuri

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Designed as a textbook for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

Book details

List price: $73.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 490
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.04" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Arnab Rai Choudhuri is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science. One of the world's leading scientists in the field of solar magnetohydrodynamics, he is author of The Physics of Fluids and Plasmas (Cambridge University Press, 1998).




Introduction



Interaction of radiation with matter



Stellar astrophysics I: basic theoretical ideas and observational data



Stellar astrophysics II: nucleosynthesis and other advanced topics



End states of stellar collapse



Our galaxy and its interstellar matter



Elements of stellar dynamics



Elements of plasma astrophysics



Extragalactic astronomy



The spacetime dynamics of the Universe



The thermal history of the Universe



Elements of tensors and general relativity



Some applications of general relativity



Relativistic cosmology


Appendixes


References


Index