What are the Stars?
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The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. Although the foundations of astrophysics were laid down by 1870, and the edifice was sufficiently built up by 1920, the definitive proof of many of the prescient conjectures made in the 1920s and 19 ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | What are the Stars? / by Ganesan Srinivasan. - XLV, 177 p. 105 illus ; online resource. - (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) |
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The Present Revolution in Astronomy: An Overview -- What Are the Stars? -- Stars as Globes of Gas -- Eddington’s Theory of the Stars -- Why Are the Stars as They Are? -- Energy Generation in the Stars -- Sounds of the Sun -- The Smoking Gun is Finally Found. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783642453014
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| ID scheda | 133287 |
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