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An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the dramatic changes and advancements in astrophysics that have occurred over the past decade. The Second Edition of this market-leading book has been updated to include the latest results from relevant fields of astrophysics and advances in our theoretical understanding of astrophysical phenomena.
The Tools of Astronomy: The Celestial Sphere, Celestial Mechanics, The Continuous Spectrum of Light, The Theory of Special Relativity, The Interaction of Light and Matter, Telescopes; The Nature of Stars: Binary Systems and Stellar Parameters, The Classification of Stellar Spectra, Stellar Atmospheres, The Interiors of Stars, The Sun, The Process of Star Formation, Post-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution, Stellar Pulsation, Supernovae, The Degenerate Remnants of Stars, Black Holes, Close Binary Star Systems; Planetary Systems: Physical Processes in the Solar System, The Terrestrial Planets, The Jovian Worlds, Minor Bodies of the Solar System, The Formation of Planetary Systems; Galaxies and the Universe: The Milky Way Galaxy, The Nature of Galaxies, Galactic Evolution, The Structure of the Universe, Active Galaxies, Cosmology, The Early Universe; Astronomical and Physical Constants, Unit Conversions Between SI and cgs, Solar System Data, The Constellations, The Brightest Stars, The Nearest Stars, Stellar Data, The Messier Catalog, Constants, A Constants Module for Fortran 95 (Available as a C++ header file), Orbits, A Planetary Orbit Code (Available as Fortran 95 and C++ command line versions, and Windows GUI), TwoStars, A Binary Star Code (Generates synthetic light and radial velocity curves; available as Fortran 95 and C++ command line versions, and Windows GUI), StatStar, A Stellar Structure Code (Available as Fortran 95 and C++ command line versions, and Windows GUI), StatStar, Stellar Models, Galaxy, A Tidal Interaction Code (Available as Java), WMAP Data.
For all readers interested in moden astrophysics.
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Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, An (2nd Edition).......2007-06-03
Best Astrophysics for Undergraduate Course ! All Chapters fully explained with a lot of drills and updated with latest development on the field. Jose Quintero
The long awaited new edition of BOB (Big Orange Book).......2006-12-09
The number of books suitable for undergraduate courses in Astrophysics is not great. But of them all, this, called BOB (Big Orange Book) is the best.
This new second edition, badly needed since the first edition is now ten years old. In these ten years, there seems to have been just about as much discovered as in the centuries before. To list just a few: extrasolar planets, objects bigger than Pluto but further out (but the book was finished before the IAU decided to downgrade Pluto from being a planet), Spirit and Opportunity have been roving on Mars, discoveries like the universe is not slowing down but, rather, is actually accelerating, Dark energy wasn't even imagined at that time (and isn't easy to imagine now).
The book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate level after the student has had several previous physics classes and mathematics through differential equasions.
The one problem most often reported about BOB is its size, 1400 pages. This allows for a series of different courses to be taught using the same book by selecting appropriate chapters. Alternatively a full year course can be taught to cover most of the book.
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Highly recommended.......2007-05-02
I wanted this book for a long time and got it only when the price was reduced when they released the new version.
I highly recommend it for any serious astronomer either as a reference or for an advanced undergraduate student.
Too difficult for the average reader.......2005-08-28
This book is a bit too professional for anyone who is just starting an astrophysics course.......the provided questions really screw up ur brain.....but if ur sure u have a good solid pure math and advanced physics background then go ahead and buy it otherwise check out other books.....
An introduction to modern astrophysics.......2004-10-25
The problems are very challanging, with out an instructor and a good foundation in pure math its nearly impossible for a self learner to solve the end-chapter questions from this book. Im currenlty stuck in many of these problems. If any one happens to have a complete solutions manual, I would give $250.00 for it.
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Very difficult to teach from.......2003-03-03
After surveying available undergraduate texts in astrophysics and consulting colleagues, I settled on this as the best available despite qualms about its size and cost. My students are finding its size and sheer length overwhelming; we are forced to leave out so much material that they are questioning whether it's worth it. The system of units used (cgs) is becoming (if it is not already) obsolete in most areas of astrophysics. In every chapter there are references to material yet to be covered, requiring one to flip back and forth, often over hundreds of pages. Finally, with a 1996 publication date, much of the material is becoming dated (I know, a new edition will be even more expensive).
All that said, there are remarkably few errors in the text, figures, and problems for a work of this size. The instructor's solution manual is clear, comprehensive, and generally correct.
Excellent and encyclopedic.......2000-01-26
There are very few comprehensive astrophysics text books at the junior/senior level. In trying to find a book which surveys most of the field I found only three possibilities. Two were good (Astrophysical Concepts by Harwitt and Astrophysics by Bowers and Deeming) but this one is EXCELLENT. The level of presentation is mathematically accessible to advanced undergrads in physics, math, comp sci, and engineering while the underlying physics is reviewed before it is applied. The exercises are interesting and complete and include several nice computer based problems in each chapter.
For a one semester survey class the size and scope of this book will induce heart attacks in your students but the organization and clear layout of the text allows the instructor to select a set of topics which (a) cover a wide range of astrophysical ideas and (b) don't depend strongly on the omitted material.
Highly recommended.
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A Subset of Introduction to Modern Astrophysics.......2006-12-15
Aimed at the advanced physics or astronomy undergraduate student, this is an offspring of Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, often called BOB (Big Orange Book).
The one problem most often reported about BOB is its size, 1400 pages. Consequently this new, less expensive, smaller book has been produced that is smaller, more compact, and aimed at specific subject areas. In this book numerous subjects have been simply left out. These include: optics, the Solar System, and pulsars. Other areas have been greatly reduced in size: stellar evolution and radiative transfer. What's left is the core material needed for a course in Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology.
This new second edition, badly needed since the first edition is now ten years old. In these ten years, there seems to have been just about as much discovered as in the centuries before. Discoveries like the universe is not slowing down but, rather, is actually accelerating, Dark energy wasn't even imagined at that time (and isn't easy to imagine now).
The book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate level after the student has had several previous physics classes and mathematics through differential equasions.
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An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics
Dale A. Ostlie , and
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Nice Text.......2001-07-02
Modern Stellar Astrophysics was a nice book. It was organized very well and presented the material in an orderly fashion. I thought that it lacked depth though. It gave many concepts, but they lacked mathematical examples to go with those concepts. A good book for people who already understand modern physics, but for those without a deep understanding of modern physics it will leave many open questions. Lastly, the homework questions at the end of the chapters resembled those examples throughtout the chapters themselves very closely and even identically, thus answering them takes absolutely no analytical skills just mere copying.
An Excellent Comprehensive Introduction to the subject.........2000-10-09
This is an excellent introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, covering from the very start the essential concepts needed to undertake the subject, and gradually building up untill a nice introductory level is achieved. The book is well organized: divided into two blocks, starts by setting a solid basis upon which later presents the subject. In the first and introductory part, the essential astronomical concepts are explained, and in the second part the author gets into the actual Astrophysics of Stars. The book is pleasant on several levels; conceptually, coherently and aesthetically, all this while making use of a clear, straightforward matheticall formalism which is simple enough to follow. It is well suited for an introductory course at the undergraduate level, and one of the few books which actually bridges the gap between the high-level available pieces and the general public oriented literature on the subject.
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Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics (UNITEXT / Collana di Fisica e Astronomia)
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These notes are designed as a text book for a course on the Modern Physics Theory for undergraduate students. The purpose is providing a rigorous and self-contained presentation of the simplest theoretical framework using elementary mathematical tools. A number of examples of relevant applications and an appropriate list of exercises and answered questions are also given.
The first part is devoted to Special Relativity concerning in particular space-time relativity and relativistic kinematics.
The second part deals with Schroedinger's formulation of quantum mechanics. The presentation concerns mainly one dimensional problems, in particular tunnel effect, discrete energy levels and band spectra.
The third part concerns the application of Gibbs statistical methods to quantum systems and in particular to Bose and Fermi gasses.
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BLACK WOMEN'S VOICES.......2000-09-07
THIS TERRIFIC BOOK RECAPTURES BLACK WOMEN'S EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE UNIQUE LIVES THEY LED. WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT FREE BLACK WOMEN IN THE SOUTH AND THESE LETTERS AND DIARIES BRING TO LIFE A NEGLECTED CHAPTER OF OUR HISTORY AND THEIR EXPERIENCE.....PLUS THE DIARY OF THIS YOUNG BLACK WOMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR IS A COMPELLING HISTORICAL VOICE. THE EDITOR HAS DONE A TERRIFIC JOB SETTING THESE VOICES IN CONTEXT SO WE CAN ONCE AGAIN HEAR THEIR STORIES AND READ THE WORDS OF LOST BLACK WOMEN FROM THE PAST.
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- A delightful and personal account of historic New Orleans
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Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood
Eliza Ripley
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A delightful and personal account of historic New Orleans.......2005-09-06
In light of the recent events of Hurricane Katrina, I discovered this book by accident when searching the internet for information on historic New Orleans. I found and read an html text version of this book, posted on the internet. The posting was complete with scanned in pictures of the original 1912 first edition, including all of the book's illustrations (which were engravings). I am waiting for a hardcover edition to be delivered to me.
This book has charmed me. If you love history, and are interested in a real historical perspective of old New Orleans, this is an excellent book to study. The story is author, Eliza Ripley's personal account of growing up in pre-civil war New Orleans, written in first person. Eliza Ripley wrote this at the turn of the 20th century, when she was an older woman.
The writing may appear to be a little dainty and sentimental to modern readers. However, like historic novels, it is important to remember the time in which it was written. The detailed descriptions and open frankness of this book are delightful. It is as if she were speaking to you directly, describing details of her personal life, which took place during an important time in history. With the recent events of Hurricane Katrina, I was especially moved. Eliza Ripley writes, "I feel I am, for the fun of the thing, dragging forth a few skeletons from closets, but I do not ticket them, so no harm is done."
A look back at an adventurous life.......2002-07-23
Eliza Chinn was born in Kentucky in 1832 and moved to New Orleans with her family in 1835. In 1852, she married James McHatton and lived at Arlington Plantation until Union gunboats arrived at their levee in 1862. They spent the rest of the War convoying cotton from Louisiana across Texas to the markets in Mexico. McHatton took his wife to Cuba in 1865, where they operated a large sugar plantation until his death, when Eliza returned to the States and married Dwight Ripley. The remainder of her life, she says succinctly, "was passed in the North." In 1887, she began publishing a series of reminiscences of her adventurous life which were first collected in book form shortly after her death in 1912. The chapters in this volume begin with Eliza's experiences as a boarding school girl in 1840s and stroll reflectively through social events and weddings, the music and songs of the mid-century, the celebrities her father (a judge) entertained, the astonishment of visiting Northerners on first encountering plantation hospitality, and what it was like being raised by a black "mammy." The author's style is relaxed and friendly, and you'll think you were being entertained in her parlor. The narrative is accompanied by some two dozen illustrations, many of them pen-and-ink sketches of high quality.
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Myron Tassin , and
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Louisiana History.......2003-11-03
The fact that I was in New Orleans while reading part of this book added to the experience. It is a history of that city and being on location provided a visual element that not everyone can enjoy unless they make the trip.
This book is somewhat straightforward as a historical work. It isn't necessarily colorful or instructive. It's just there. Cable describes the setting, the people, the controveries surrrounding a given location and time.
If you want to know more about the people who developed the city of New Orleans and how it resulted in some of the mindset there today, this book may provide some answers.
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One of the greatest and most celebrated Southern writers of his day, George Washington Cable (1844-1925) helped to lead the local colorist movement of the late 1800s with his pioneering use of dialect and his skill with the short story form. A Southern reformist, Cable wrote faithful portrayals of Creoles and their culture that depict the Creole way of life during the transitory post-Civil War period.
Originally published in 1879, "Old Creole Days" catapulted Cable to national recognition. The stories within reflect the everyday life of the New Orleans Creoles through a mixture of humor and the unique Creole patois. Cable's best-known work, "Old Creole Days" includes such famous stories as "Posson Jone'," "Jean-ah Poquelin," and "Madame Délicieuse," tales that are alive with the sounds and scenes of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
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Uniquely Captures an Era.......2006-05-26
The stories in this book provide colorful insight of the culture of New Orleans in the 19th century. Cable has a gift for painting lively images in the minds of his readers. This period in Louisiana history is gone, but thanks to this talented communicator we have a taste of what it was like. Strolling through the narrow streets of the French Quarter, one can think back to days gone by. Cable helps us understand a little of what it was like.
History is about people. As a historical journalist, Cable keeps the human element in the forefront of his work. He doesn't forget that people want to know about other people. Fortunately for us, he tells the stories of Louisianians in his generation.
dialect as thick as gumbo.......2003-11-06
This book is worth reading as an example of the local color school of literature of the late 19th century. It consists of a novelette, Madame Delphine, and some short stories and sketches. The problem is that the dialogue is written in dialect as thick as gumbo. Outsiders can hardly understand it unless they speak it aloud.
Good.......2001-07-12
You get the feel of life in New Orleans at that time.
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