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20089229 |
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OSt |
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171024s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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2017958745 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780198816478 |
| Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
ICTS-TIFR |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QB461 |
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.S24 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Saha, P. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Prasenjit), |
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author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The astronomers' magic envelope : |
| Remainder of title |
an introduction to astrophysics emphasizing general principles and orders of magnitude |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 300 ## - Physical Description |
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| Pages: |
121 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1: Orbits<br/>2: Celestial Mechanics<br/>3: Schwarzschild's spacetime<br/>4: Interlude: Quantum ideal gases<br/>5: Gravity versus pressure<br/>6: Nuclear fusion in stars<br/>7: The main sequence of stars<br/>8: The expanding Universe<br/>9: The cosmic microwave background. |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good 'back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argument that starts from general principles and leads to an interesting result. This book guides students on how to understand astrophysics using general principles and concise calculations, endeavoring to be elegant where possible and using short computer programs where necessary. The material proceeds in approximate historical order. The book begins with the Enlightenment-era insight that the orbits of the planets is easy, but the orbit of the Moon is a real headache, and continues to deterministic chaos. This is followed by a chapter on spacetime and black holes. Four chapters reveal how microphysics, especially quantum mechanics, allow us to understand how stars work. The last two chapters are about cosmology, bringing us to 21st-century developments on the microwave background and gravitational waves. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Astrophysics |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Astronomy |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Taylor, Paul A. |
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Book |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Oxford ; |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[c2018] |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
