A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107034949

Plain-language explanations and a rich set of supporting material help students understand the mathematical concepts and techniques of astronomy.

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107292557

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and the known Universe. Using the plain-language approach that has proven highly popular in Fleisch's other Student's Guides, this book is ideal for non-science majors taking introductory astronomy courses. The authors address topics that students find most troublesome, on subjects ranging from stars and light to gravity and black holes. Dozens of fully worked examples and over 150 exercises and homework problems help readers get to grips with the concepts in each chapter. An accompanying website features a host of supporting materials, including interactive solutions for every exercise and problem in the text and a series of video podcasts in which the authors explain the important concepts of every section of the book.

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781107610217

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and the known Universe. Using the plain-language approach that has proven highly popular in Fleisch's other Student's Guides, this book is ideal for non-science majors taking introductory astronomy courses. The authors address topics that students find most troublesome, on subjects ranging from stars and light to gravity and black holes. Dozens of fully worked examples and over 150 exercises and homework problems help readers get to grips with the concepts in each chapter. An accompanying website features a host of supporting materials, including interactive solutions for every exercise and problem in the text and a series of video podcasts in which the authors explain the important concepts of every section of the book.

A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation

A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation
Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108834736

A clear guide to the key concepts and mathematical techniques underlying the Schrödinger equation, including homework problems and fully worked solutions.

A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations

A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2008-01-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139468472

Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere–Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org/9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter.

The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics

The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics
Author: Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Total Pages: 859
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780316281331

The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.

A Student's Guide to Laplace Transforms

A Student's Guide to Laplace Transforms
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1009098497

Clear explanations and supportive online material develop an intuitive understanding of the meaning and use of Laplace.

A Student's Guide to Waves

A Student's Guide to Waves
Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107054869

Written to complement course textbooks, this book focuses on the topics that undergraduates in physics and engineering find most difficult.

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors
Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521171908

Vectors and tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available, with applications ranging from mechanics and electromagnetics to general relativity. Understanding the nature and application of vectors and tensors is critically important to students of physics and engineering. Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, Fleisch explains vectors and tensors in plain language. Written for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors and vector calculus before transitioning through contra and covariant components to tensors and their applications. Matrices and their algebra are reviewed on the book's supporting website, which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once. Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author.

Fundamental Astronomy

Fundamental Astronomy
Author: Hannu Karttunen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662053330

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented sections on the solar system, extrasolar planets and astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.