Astrophysics
A Very Short Introduction
$22.85
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2016
Summary
Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole.
In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binney shows how the field of astrophysics has expanded rapidly in the past century, with vast quantities of data gathered by telescopes exploiting all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, combi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198752851 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198752857 |
| Author: | James Binney |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 114mm x 173mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
an enjoyably easy read, and a long way from being a stodgy textbook - I mean, what textbook would tell you the Galaxy contains ‘zillions of dark-matter particles’?
an enjoyably easy read, and a long way from being a stodgy textbook - I mean, what textbook would tell you the Galaxy contains ‘zillions of dark-matter particles’? * Andrew May, Popular Science *
James Binney
James Binney, FRS, is a highly distinguished astrophysicist at Oxford University. He is head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, and has been awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics. A specialist in galactic dynamics, he is the author of three widely used graduate textbooks, including The Physics of Quantum Mechanics (OUP, 2013), co-authored with David Skinner.
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