Author: Publisher:
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
Author: George B. RybickiPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 352761818X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Radiative Processes in Astrophysics: This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present-from a physicist's point of view-radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers such topics as radiative transfer theory, relativistic covariance and kinematics, bremsstrahlung radiation, synchrotron radiation, Compton scattering, some plasma effects, and radiative transitions in atoms. Discussion begins with first principles, physically motivating and deriving all results rather than merely presenting finished formulae. However, a reasonably good physics background (introductory quantum mechanics, intermediate electromagnetic theory, special relativity, and some statistical mechanics) is required. Much of this prerequisite material is provided by brief reviews, making the book a self-contained reference for workers in the field as well as the ideal text for senior or first-year graduate students of astronomy, astrophysics, and related physics courses. Radiative Processes in Astrophysics also contains about 75 problems, with solutions, illustrating applications of the material and methods for calculating results. This important and integral section emphasizes physical intuition by presenting important results that are used throughout the main text; it is here that most of the practical astrophysical applications become apparent.
The Nuclear Many-Body Problem
Author: Peter RingPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540212065
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Study Edition
INIS Atomindeks
Author: High Energy Physics Index
Author: Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Physics Briefs
Author: Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Government Reports Annual Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Ignition!
Author: John Drury ClarkPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813599199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.