Astrophysics With a PC: An Introduction to Computational Astrophysics

by Paul Hellings

This is a book for amateur astronomers who want to explore astrophysics with a PC. Among the subjects covered are the morphology of comet tails, meteor dynamics, distance calculations of wide binary stars, polytropes, homogeneous stellar models, stellar atmospheres, the structure of white dwarfs, star formation in the galaxy, individual stellar orbits in the galaxy and cosmological models for the Universe.

260 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994