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About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations and Companions (in English)
Michael Mark Woolfson
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World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
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About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations and Companions (in English) - Woolfson, Michael Mark
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Synopsis "About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations and Companions (in English)"
'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.
