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The Sun as a Star
Hardback
Main Details
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The Sun as a Star
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Roger John Tayler
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:256 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 179 |
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| Category/Genre | Solar system |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521464642
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| Classifications | Dewey:523.7 523.7 523.7 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
6 Tables, unspecified; 3 Halftones, unspecified; 81 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
28 October 1996 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Using mathematics appropriate for advanced undergraduate students in physics, this textbook provides a broad and wide-ranging introduction to the Sun as a star. Tayler provides succinct derivations of key results--such as the properties of spectral lines, the theory of stellar oscillations, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory--in nine handy appendices, ensuring that the book is completely self contained. Altogether, this is an invaluable textbook for students studying the Sun, stars, the solar-terrestrial environment and the formation of planetary systems.
Reviews'The wealth of data on the Sun makes for rich pickings, and Roger Tayler has not stinted on The Sun as a Star ... The book is accurately pitched at the second and third-year university student, concentrating on those aspects of solar physics that help us to understand stars in general ... The Sun as a Star clearly originates from a university lecture course. But Tayler has steered well away from the prosaic: what remains is a good, sharp, textbook.' David Hughes, New Scientist
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