Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction book pdf download

Author: James Binney

About the Author: Merton’s Professorial Fellow in Physics James Binney FRS has been awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize for 2015 by the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF – the Italian Physical Society).
The award recognises his work on galaxy dynamics, in particular the development of an understanding of how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium, and of how this exchange controls the evolution of galaxy morphology.
In 2007 the SIF, together with the UK-based Institute of Physics, instituted the Occhialini Medal and Prize in honour of Giuseppe Occhialini, the Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion in 1947 whilst working at the University of Bristol. The award is made alternately by the council of one of the two societies to a physicist selected from a list of nominees submitted by the other.

Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction book pdf download By James Binney

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole.

In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binney shows how the field of astrophysics has expanded rapidly in the past century, with vast quantities of data gathered by telescopes exploiting all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, combined with the rapid advance of computing power, which has allowed increasingly effective mathematical modelling. He illustrates how the application of fundamental principles of physics – the consideration of energy and mass, and momentum – and the two pillars of relativity and quantum mechanics, has provided insights into phenomena ranging from rapidly spinning millisecond pulsars to the collision of giant spiral galaxies. This is a clear, rigorous introduction to astrophysics for those keen to cut their teeth on a conceptual treatment involving some mathematics.
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