From Black Clouds To Black Holes (2nd Edition)
From Black Clouds To Black Holes (2nd Edition)

Author: Jayant V Narlikar

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 1995-12-29

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9813103191

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This book describes in nontechnical language one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, a description of how a star evolves with time, how its shape and brightness change, how it manufactures the chemical elements deep in its interior, what makes it explode… The presentation also includes exotic objects such as supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and white dwarfs, and of course, black holes. This revised edition brings the discussion up to date with the inclusion of astronomical events like Supernova 1987A and findings from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as other observations. The book is appropriate as supplementary material for an elementary course on astronomy and astrophysics.

From Black Clouds To Black Holes (Third Edition)
From Black Clouds To Black Holes (Third Edition)

Author: Jayant V Narlikar

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9813108177

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This book presents in a simple style the success story of modern astrophysics — how the application of known physics to models of stars can, together with the observational data, help us understand what stars are made of, how they live and how they die. The account is non-technical but scientifically accurate. It is interspersed with anecdotes and analogies to make the subject matter readable and understandable even to a lay reader with some basic scientific background.

Physics Of Comets (2nd Edition)
Physics Of Comets (2nd Edition)

Author: K S Krishna Swamy

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-05-03

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9814499064

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The study of Comet Halley in 1986 was a tremendous success for cometary science. In March of that year, six spacecrafts passed through Comet Halley as close as 600 km from the nucleus and made the in situ measurements of various kinds. These space missions to Comet Halley and that of the ICE spacecraft to Comet Giacobini-Zinner combined with studies, both ground-based and above the atmosphere, have increased our knowledge of cometary science in a dramatic way.This new edition of Physics of Comets incorporates these new and exciting findings. The emphasis of the book is on the physical processes operating in a cometary environment. It discusses up-to-date observations, methods and results based on the study of various comets. The subject is developed in a systematic manner covering various aspects of cometary phenomena. This book may serve as a text book for students, and as reference material for researchers.

Black Holes, Cosmology And Extra Dimensions (Second Edition)
Black Holes, Cosmology And Extra Dimensions (Second Edition)

Author: Kirill A Bronnikov

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 9811233462

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Assuming basic knowledge of special and general relativity, this book guides the reader to problems under consideration in modern research, concerning black holes, wormholes, cosmology, and extra dimensions. Its first part is devoted to local strong field configurations (black holes and wormholes) in general relativity and its most relevant extensions: scalar-tensor, f(R), and multidimensional theories. The second part discusses cosmology, including inflation and problems of a unified description of the whole evolution of the universe. The third part concerns multidimensional theories of gravity and contains a number of original results obtained by the authors. Expository work is conducted for a mechanism of symmetries and fundamental constants formation. The original approach to nonlinear multidimensional gravity that is able to construct a unique perspective describing different phenomena is highlighted.Much of the content was previously presented only in journal publications and is new for book contents, e.g., on regular black holes, various scalar field solutions, wormholes and their stability, inflation, clusters of primordial black holes, and multidimensional gravity. The last two topics are added in this new edition of the book. The other chapters are also updated to include new discoveries like the detection of gravitational waves.

Fundamentals Of Solar Astronomy
Fundamentals Of Solar Astronomy

Author: Arvind Bhatnagar

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9814486914

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There are several textbooks available on solar astronomy which deal with advanced astrophysical aspects of solar physics, and books which provide very elementary knowledge about the Sun. This book will help to bridge the gap. It aims to stimulate interest in solar astronomy, presenting at one place the basic methods and techniques used in the field, together with the latest findings and the excitement in solar physics. As solar astronomy is becoming very popular among amateur astronomers and laymen, the book provides the practical knowledge to build simple solar telescopes and other equipment for making solar observations. Amateur astronomers have made important contributions to solar astronomy, and this book will help to guide them in their endeavours. The book can also serve as a text for undergraduate and graduate students starting out on solar physics. Using it, graduate students can easily embark on specific topics of research in solar astronomy.

Physics Of Comets (3rd Edition)
Physics Of Comets (3rd Edition)

Author: K S Krishna Swamy

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9814466182

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This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions — detection of molecule H2 and prompt emission lines of OH for the first time; discovery of X-rays in comets; observed diversity in chemical composition among comets; the puzzle of the constancy of spin temperature; the well-established mineralogy of cometary dust; extensive theoretical modeling carried out for understanding the observed effects; the similarity in the mineralogy of dust in circumstellar shell of stars, comets, meteorites, asteroids and IDPs, thus indicating the generic relationship between them.

Infrared Tools For Solar Antrophysics: What's Next? - Proceedings Of The Fifteenth National Solar Observatory/sacramento Peak Summer Workshop
Infrared Tools For Solar Antrophysics: What's Next? - Proceedings Of The Fifteenth National Solar Observatory/sacramento Peak Summer Workshop

Author: Jeffrey R Kuhn

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1995-06-29

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9814549487

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These proceedings sample new results derived from extended-objected IR observations and explore the capabilities of large-aperture, low-scattered-light instrumentation. The latest results from IR solar observations are described and a broad range of night-time problems from gravitational lens detection to planetary detection are explored in the context of what capabilities a large reflecting coronagraphic telescope could offer.

Physics From Planck Scale To Electroweak Scale - Proceedings Of The Us-polish Workshop 1994
Physics From Planck Scale To Electroweak Scale - Proceedings Of The Us-polish Workshop 1994

Author: Pran Nath

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1995-04-28

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9814549517

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The Proceedings of the Workshop covers a broad range of subjects from low energy supersymmetry through supersymmetric grand unification to supergravity and superstring theories. Although the focus was mainly on theoretical problems and ideas, the present and future experimental searches of new particles were also discussed.

Lectures On Cosmology And Action-at-a-distance Electrodynamics
Lectures On Cosmology And Action-at-a-distance Electrodynamics

Author: Fred Hoyle

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1996-07-03

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9814499358

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This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field. In general such an interaction travels forward and backward in time symmetrically, thus apparently violating the principle of causality. It turns out, however, that in such a description the cosmological boundary conditions become very important. The theory therefore works only in a cosmology with the right boundary conditions; but when it does work it is free from the divergences that plague a quantum field theory.