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Rhythm in the Sky : Periodic Motions in the Universe / by Gautam Gangopadhyay, Anirban Kundu.
Springer Nature - Springer Physics and Astronomy eBooks 2024 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gangopadhyay, Gautam.
- Series:
- Studies in Rhythm Engineering, 2524-5554
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Observations.
- Astronomy.
- Quantum theory.
- Mechanics, Applied.
- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
- Quantum Physics.
- Engineering Mechanics.
- Local Subjects:
- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
- Quantum Physics.
- Engineering Mechanics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book provides a brief and pedagogic introduction to a variety of topics, with a common motif that they all occur, in some way or other, in “the sky”, and involve some sort of “rhythm”. Sky is not just the inside of a dome; there are many strata, each with its own beauties and mysteries. As we go up, the atmosphere thins out and ends, and we move into the space, into the realms of planets, asteroids, and comets, and even further, beyond the solar system into the vast Milky Way galaxy. This is where the night sky comes in, with all its twinkling stars, the stars in our own galaxy. We must use telescopes to explore further. In this book, we will start from the ancient astronomers and how they studied the motion of earth through space. Study of planetary orbits, from Kepler and Newton to Einstein, had been fascinating. We will try to take the reader through the wonderful worlds of the cepheid variables and pulsars to the strange oscillations of the neutrinos and the new eye to look at the universe, namely the gravitational waves. The book stops at the discovery of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, but that is just because we must stop somewhere, or the assortment could go on ad infinitum. Some of these topics are highly mathematical in nature, but we will try to avoid the complicated mathematics as much as possible, without compromising with the rigor.
- Contents:
- On Periodic Motion
- On Electromagnetism and Gravity
- The Calendar, the Day and the Hour
- Highways in the Sky
- Flickering Candles: Cepheid variable stars
- Stars that Breathe.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 981-9725-88-7
- OCLC:
- 1435753204
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