Astrophysics

Аннотация

Like many textbooks, this one originated from lectures delivered over a number of years to undergraduate students at my home institution – Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. These students had already taken a first year (or two) of physics and one introductory astronomy course. Thus, this book is aimed at an intermediate level and is meant to be a stepping stone to more sophisticated and focussed courses, such as stellar structure, physics of the interstellar medium, cosmology, or others. The text may also be of some help to beginning graduate students with little background in astronomy or those who would like to see how physics is applied, in a practical way, to astronomical objects.