Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The purpose of the book is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle. The theme is, as far as possible, free from “terminology” and technical concepts...
Planetary Aeronomy
Atmosphere Environments in Planetary Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Planetary Aeronomy is a modern and concise introduction to the underlying physical and chemical processes that govern the formation and evolution of the upper atmospheres of planets. The general approach employed permits consideration of the growing number of extrasolar planets, the detailed observation...
Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars
250+ Wonderful Sky Objects to See and Explore
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars is a complete guide to practical astronomy, written for beginners, intermediate-level astronomers, and even people who have not yet turned their gaze to the night sky. The required observing equipment to get the full value from this book is no more than...
by Melody Sandells, Daniela Flocco
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The cryosphere encompasses all regions of the planet that experiences water in ice form for some portion of the year. In this book, authors Melody Sandells and Daniela Flocco deliver an introduction to the physics of the cryosphere. This includes the Arcti
The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian impacts
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
“The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets” presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current knowledge on this topic.
Several papers in this book...
Global Climate
Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Uncertainty for Everyone The one thing that is certain about the world is that the world is uncertain. I have here, the question that apart of the matter, living matter, has to resolve in each and every one of its moments of existance. The environment of a living being is apart of the living being...
by K K Phua, L C Kwek, N P Chang;A H Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy,...
Neutrino Astronomy
Current Status, Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube. The aim of the book is to bring together chapters on the status of current and future neutrino observatories with chapters on the implications and possible interpretations of the present observations...
XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium
Proceedings, Guwahati, India, December 8 – 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014. The contributions cover many of the most active research areas in particle physics, namely (i) Electroweak...
by Graham Albert White
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This is an in-depth look at baryon number violation in the Standard Model including the necessary background in finite temperature field theory, plasma dynamics and how to calculate the out of equilibrium evolution of particle number densities throughout a phase transition. It is a self-contained...
Numerical Relativity
Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Aimed at students and researchers entering the field, this pedagogical introduction to numerical relativity will also interest scientists seeking a broad survey of its challenges and achievements. Assuming only a basic knowledge of classical general relativity, the book develops the mathematical formalism...
by Takuma Izumi
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This thesis focuses on understanding the growth and formation mechanism of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), an issue it addresses by investigating the dense interstellar medium that is assumed to be a crucial component of the fuel for SMBHs. The thesis also offers unique guidance on using the Atacama...
by Jose Andrade-Garda, Joan Ferré-Baldrich, Alfredo Sanz Medel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The first edition of this book was a first book for atomic spectroscopists to present the basic principles of experimental designs, optimization and multivariate regression. Multivariate regression is a valuable statistical method for handling complex problems (such as spectral and chemical interferences)...