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Fundamentals of Astrophysics, Paperback / softback Book

Fundamentals of Astrophysics Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This concise textbook, designed specifically for a one-semester course in astrophysics, introduces astrophysical concepts to undergraduate science and engineering students with a background in college-level, calculus-based physics.

The text is organized into five parts covering: stellar properties; stellar structure and evolution; the interstellar medium and star/planet formation; the Milky Way and other galaxies; and cosmology.

Structured around short easily digestible chapters, instructors have flexibility to adjust their course's emphasis as it suits them.

Exposition drawn from the author's decade of teaching his course guides students toward a basic but quantitative understanding, with 'quick questions' to spur practice in basic computations, together with more challenging multi-part exercises at the end of each chapter.

Advanced concepts like the quantum nature of energy and radiation are developed as needed.

The text's approach and level bridge the wide gap between introductory astronomy texts for non-science majors and advanced undergraduate texts for astrophysics majors.

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