Morison Introduction to Astronomy and Cosmology

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-74019-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology is a modernundergraduate textbook, combining both the theory behind astronomywith the very latest developments. Written for science students,this book takes a carefully developed scientific approach to thisdynamic subject. Every major concept is accompanied by a workedexample with end of chapter problems to improve understanding
* Includes coverage of the very latest developments such asdouble pulsars and the dark galaxy.
* Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout
* Supplementary web site with many additional full colour images,content, and latest developments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morison, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Astronomy, an observational science.
Chapter 2: Our Solar System I: the Sun.
Chapter 3: Our Solar System II - the Planets.
Chapter 4: Extra-solar Planets.
Chapter 5: Observing the Universe.
Chapter 6: The properties of stars
Chapter 7: Stellar Evolution - the life and death of stars.
Chapter 8: Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe.
Chapter 9: Cosmology - the origin and evolution of the universe.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Morison began his love of astronomy when, at the age of12, he made a telescope out of lenses given to him by his optician.He went on to study Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Oxfordand in 1970 was appointed to the staff of the University ofManchester where he now teaches astronomy, computing andelectronics.
He is a past president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, oneof the UK's largest astronomical societies. He remains on thesociety's council and holds the post of instrument advisor helpingmembers with their choice and use of Telescopes.
He lectures wi9dely on astronomy, has co-authored books foramateur astronomers and writes regularly for the two UK astronomymagazines. He also writes a monthly sky guide for the Jodrell BankObservatory's web site and produces an audio version as part of theJodrell Bank Podcast. He has contributed to many televisionprogrammes and is a regular astronomy commentator on local andnational radio. Another activity he greatly enjoys to take amateurastronomers on observing trips such as those to Lapland to see theAurora Borealis and on expeditions to Turkey and China to observetotal eclipses of the Sun.
In 2003 the Minor Planets Committee of the InternationalAstronomical Union named asteroid 15,727 in his honour, citing hiswork with MERLIN, the world's largest linked array of radiotelescopes, and that in searching for intelligent life beyond ourSolar System in Project Phoenix. In 2007 he was appointed to thepost of Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Dating from 1597, this isthe oldest astronomy professorship in the world and was once heldby Christopher Wren.