Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781891389467)

This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium.
This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium. Radiation mechanisms are comprehensively presented, and extensive examples are drawn from observations in the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, mm/sub mm, and radio observations. This book goes beyond a phenomenological study of the interstellar medium to give a detailed quantitative treatment of the radiative and dynamical interactions between stars and the interstellar medium. With an emphasis on a physical understanding of these processes, the mathematical derivations are clean, elegant and easily understandable by anyone with an undergraduate background in physics.

Author: Sun Kwok
ISBN-10: 1891389467
ISBN-13: 9781891389467
Publisher: University Science Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.48lbs
Size: 9.48h x 7.60w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2007 pg. 43