Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780198752851
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By (author) James Binney,

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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.

SKU: 9780198752851

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ISBN: 9780198752851

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 11.4 × 0.9 × 17.3 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 176 pages
Dimensions 11.4 × 0.9 × 17.3 cm | 159
Publication Date 24 March 2016
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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James Binney

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James Binney, FRS, 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.

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