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A concise textbook for a one-semester course for science and engineering majors who have taken college-level, calculus-based physics. Filling a niche between introductory astronomy books for non-science majors and advanced texts, it presents a quantitative overview of stars, exoplanets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and big-bang cosmology.
Editions of Fundamentals of Astrophysics
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781108844390
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781108948128
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A concise textbook for a one-semester course for science and engineering majors who have taken college-level, calculus-based physics. Filling a niche between introductory astronomy books for non-science majors and advanced texts, it presents a quantitative overview of stars, exoplanets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and big-bang cosmology.
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What is Fundamentals of Astrophysics about?
A concise textbook for a one-semester course for science and engineering majors who have taken college-level, calculus-based physics. Filling a niche between introductory astronomy books for non-science majors and advanced texts, it presents a quantitative overview of stars, exoplanets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and big-bang cosmology.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Fundamentals of Astrophysics?
Mathematics and Science > Physics > Applied physics > Astrophysics
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Fundamentals of Astrophysics?
Stan Owocki
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Fundamentals of Astrophysics is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781108844390) and paperback(ISBN 9781108948128)
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