Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Binney, James

ISBN 10: 0198752857 / ISBN 13: 9780198752851

Published by Oxford University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198752857
• ISBN 13: 9780198752851
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Astrophysics is said to have been born when Isaac Newton saw an apple drop in his orchard and had the electrifying insight that the Moon falls just like that apple. James Binney shows how the application of physical laws derived on Earth allows us to understand objects that exist on the far side of the Universe.

About the Author

James Binney is a highly distinguished astrophysicist at Oxford University. He is head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, and has been awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics. A specialist in galactic dynamics, he is the author of three widely used graduate textbooks, including The Physics of Quantum Mechanics (OUP, 2013), co-authored with David Skinner.