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Covers all the basic tools and numbers require for an understanding of modern astrophysics.
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The book is unique in covering all the basic tools and numbers required for an understanding of modern astrophysics, including a representative set of formulae, in a concise manner. For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence should b e aware of early interpretations. Special chaptes are devoted to magnetic and radiation processes, disks, black-hole candidacy, bipolar flows, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts, image distortions, and special sources. At the same time, planet earth is viewed as the arena for life, with plants and ani- mals having evolved to homo sapiens during cosmic time. This text is unique in covering the basic qualitative and quantitative tools, formulae as well as numbers, needed to for the precise interpretation of frontline phenomena. The author compares mainstream interpretations with new and even controversial ones he wishes to emphasize. From the contents: - Cosmic Structures: Solar System - The Milky Way - World Substratum - Distance Ladder - Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, and Sponge Structure - Cosmology - Gas Dynamics: Galactic Pressures - Shock Waves - Stellar Winds - H II Regions - Stability of a Contact Discontinuity - Pressure Bombs - Supernovae - Radiation and Spectra: Radiation by an Accelerated Point Charge - Frequency Distributions - Spectra Emitted by Ensembles
