Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium
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Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1978
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- Title
- Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium
- Author
- Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471022322
- ISBN 13
- 9780471022329
Now available in paperback as a Wiley Classics edition, this book presents a comprehensive treatment on the relation of physical processes to interstellar matter. Provides a focus on constant physical principles needed to comprehend rapidly changing observational results in this field.
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Discusses the nature of interstellar matter, with a strong emphasis on basic physical principles. Summarizes the present state of knowledge about the interstellar medium and provides the latest observational data. Physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium are treated, with frequent references to observational results. The overall equilibrium and dynamical state of the interstellar gas are described, with discussions of explosions produced by star birth and star death and the initial phases of cloud collapse leading to star formation.
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