Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is a fascinating account by the leading designer for Mars and Venus spacecraft in the Soviet Union during the early days of Mars exploration, V.G. Perminov, at a time when many missions to the Red...
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L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and the Final Mercury Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and...
Measurements of Spin-Orbit Angles for Transiting Systems
Toward an Understanding of the Migration History of Exoplanets
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This thesis presents accurate analyses of the spin-orbit angle for many remarkable transiting exoplanetary systems, including the first measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for a multiple transiting system.
The author presents the observational methods needed to probe the...
by P V Manoranjan Rao, P Radhakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book attempts to showcase Indias capabilities in rocketry developed over the past 45 years (1963-2003). Starting from scratch, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) painstakingly mastered this technology in a remarkably short time. The book explains the complex technological developments...
Studying Stellar Rotation and Convection
Theoretical Background and Seismic Diagnostics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This volume synthesizes the results of work carried out by several international teams of the SIROCO (Seismology for
Rotation and Convection) collaboration. It provides the theoretical background required to interpret the huge quantity of high-quality observational data recently provided by space...
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.
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...
Traveling at the Speed of Thought
Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetected fluctuations in the shape of space-time were first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity,...
The Hunt for Alien Life
A Wider Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Astronomer Peter Linde takes the reader through the story of the search for extraterrestrial life in a captivating and thought-provoking way, specifically addressing the new research that is currently devoted towards discovering other planets with life. He discusses the methods used to detect possible...
The Beginning and the End of Everything
From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' – DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of Ad Astra The Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it – from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to...
by Ioan Merches, Maricel Agop
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Using Cartan's differential 1-forms theory, and assuming that the motion variables depend on Euclidean invariants, certain dynamics of the material point and systems of material points are developed. Within such a frame, the Newtonian force as mass inertial interaction at the intragalactic scale,...
by W. M. Smart
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for...
by Ali Haidar Sulaiman
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This thesis focuses on the very high Mach number shock wave that is located sunward of Saturn's strong magnetic field in the continuous high-speed flow of charged particles from the Sun (the solar wind). The author exploits the fact that the Cassini spacecraft is the only orbiter in a unique parameter...