A Concise History of Solar and Stellar PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 2014 M11 28 - 304 pages This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. |
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... Evolution Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Beginnings of Quantitative Astrophysics The Stellar-Energy Problem The Internal ...
... Evolution Postgiant Evolution and Stellar Remnants Evolution of Close Binary Stars The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (III) Stellar Rotation and Magnetic Fields The Maturing of Solar Physics Chapter 6. The Era of Specialization ...
... Evolutionary tracks for stars of different masses Post-main-sequence evolutionary tracks Icko Iben, Jr. A composite Hertzsprung-Russell diagram Chushiro Hayashi Iosif Shklovskii Thomas Gold Chandrasekhar with Igor Novikov and Yakov ...
... evolved over the centuries. In chapter 2 we deal in a most systematic way with the immense mass of observations that astronomy has accumulated from about 1610 to the late 1910s. (For the sake of clarity, more recent observations are ...
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Contents
1 | |
16101910 | 29 |
18401910 | 66 |
19101940 | 94 |
19401970 | 133 |
1970 | 192 |
Epilogue | 247 |
Appendix A Lanes Fully Convective Gas Spheres | 250 |
Appendix C Ritters Theory of Pulsating Stars | 252 |
Appendix D Radial and Nonradial Stellar Pulsations | 254 |
Appendix E Bohrs Model of the Atom | 257 |
Appendix F Einsteins MassEnergy Relation | 260 |
Appendix G Three Important Nuclear Reactions | 263 |
General Bibliography | 265 |
Index of Names | 269 |
Index of Subjects | 277 |
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A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2014 |
A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2004 |