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Astronomy: A Physical Perspective by Marc L. Kutner
This comprehensive text contains useful equations, chapter summaries, worked examples and end-of-chapter problem sets. It is suitable for undergraduate students taking a first course in astronomy, and assumes a basic knowledge of physics with calculus.
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First published October 20, 1987
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July 23, 2017
This is a rather bad textbook. It is filled with error and imprecise description. Not recommended at all.
December 21, 2015
With the mathematics and physics background between high school and firs college course a very kind complete introduction to astrophysics that enables to make interesting calculations in several fields as : stellar magnitudes,orbits,planetary atmospheres,white dwarfs,neutron stars ,galaxies,cosmolgy,relativity ,telescopes,Roche limit and so on.It has a lot of worked examples and accesible fruitfull exercises
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