Astrophysics category: 1588 books
The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
An Analytic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional...
Grappling with Gravity
How Will Life Adapt to Living in Space?
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses on the biomedical...
by Arthur R. McGurn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Jet physics is an incredibly rich subject detailing the narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. This book is a general overview of jet physics for scientists not directly involved in the field. It presents...
The Problem of Space Travel
The Rocket Motor
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’.
In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel). It was the first book to devote most...
by Lutz Hüwel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken everywhere the book visits equations, quantitative...
by Mohmmad Khaja Shareef
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD:1. Every student heartily wishes to show his mettle in 11th class and 12th class. He will score cent percent marks if he works according to a perfect plan.2. The student must not simply get the answers by heart. He must cultivate the habit of reading an answer by understanding...
The Origin of Mass
Elementary Particles and Fundamental Symmetries
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals that this particle provides the...
by Alexander Merle
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This book is a new look at one of the hottest topics in contemporary science, Dark Matter. It is the pioneering text dedicated to sterile neutrinos as candidate particles for Dark Matter, challenging some of the standard assumptions which may be true for some Dark Matter candidates but not for all....
How to Understand the True Cosmos
New Gravity at Cosmic Distances
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The need for dark matter and dark energy are removed by the introduction of observations of galaxies and stars at cosmic distances to be added to the observations of planets in our solar system. When cosmic observations that were not available to Newton are included, the result is a new universal...
Mathematical Foundation of the Quantum Theory of Gravity
Beyond Einstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The aim of this book is to develop a theory capable of explaining the quantum behavior of the gravitational fields and thereafter explain the problems involving the combination of very high energy and very small dimensions of space, such as the behavior of Black holes and the study of the properties of the early universe.
The Universe on a Grand Scale: A Short Story of the Universe
Past, Present and Future, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Spacetime is curved and space is virtually flat and expanding; one of the greatest enigmas of all time in human existence. Distances to farthest galaxies from us are finite defining the edge of our Grand Scale Universe. Distances among galaxies and galaxy clusters are measured in light distance...
by Vincent J. Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The billions of galaxies with stars, planets, and moons are all made of the same substance: dust from the universe. Unlike other lifeforms on Earth, humans possess consciousnessand weve created fields of knowledge that are stored in libraries, on the internet, and elsewhere. Even now, there are some...
On the Trail of Stardust
The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
**On the Trail of Stardust puts the heavens in your hands—in the form of cosmic dust, or micrometeorites. With this handy guide from the author of the international bestseller In Search of Stardust, Jon Larsen, you will learn how to find micrometeorites in your own neighborhood!
Stardust—also...
Physical Systems
Conceptual Pathways between Flat Space-time and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Based on the concept of a physical system, this book offers a new philosophical interpretation of classical mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity. According to Belkind’s view the role of physical theory is to describe the motions of the parts of a physical system in relation to the motions...