Astrophysics & Space Science
epub |eng | 2019-07-16 | Author:Sten Odenwald

Main Sequence Stars (0.4 to 2 Msun) These stars span the spectral classes from red dwarf M-type stars to very hot A-type stars. The evolution of these stars is extremely ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:David Kaiser [Kaiser, David]

Figure 13.1. Top, Carl Brans during his graduate studies at Princeton, 1959. (Source: Courtesy of Carl Brans.) Bottom, Brans’s dissertation adviser at Princeton, Robert Dicke. (Source: Photograph by Mitchell Valentine, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michel van Pelt

Hypersatellites and star shades Over the relatively short history of spaceflight, several concepts for more substantial satellites have nevertheless been dreamed up. Interestingly, whereas the most ambitious and largest ideas ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-20 | Author:Stanton T. Friedman [Friedman, Stanton T.]

SETI people don't seem to want to discuss the simple notion that technologically advanced civilizations must either learn to live at relative peace with other civilizations or be destroyed by ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ulrich Walter

( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Keeton

The effective potential is useful because we can think of it as a surface and use our intuition to understand what would happen to a ball on that surface. Some ...
( Category: Astronomy April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kenneth R. Lang

All of these main sequence stars shine by converting hydrogen into helium. The effective disk temperature, mass, luminosity, radius, and lifetime of main-sequence stars of different spectral types are listed ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Francis F. Chen

Fig. 7.6Contours of constant f for a drifting Maxwellian distribution and a “beam” in two dimensions A loss cone distribution of a mirror-confined plasma can be represented by contours of ...
( Category: Magnetism April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michel Rieutord

7.3.1 The Boussinesq Approximation: A Qualitative Presentation When studying thermal convection in liquids, one is tempted to neglect the variations of density. Liquids are indeed weakly compressible. However, such a ...
( Category: Fluid Dynamics April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kröger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen & Karl Johan Donner

( Category: Geophysics April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alessandro De Angelis & Mário Pimenta

( Category: Particle Physics April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert & Achim Weiss

( Category: Fluid Dynamics April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Fred Watson

IN 1979, NASA’S PIONEER 11 BECAME THE FIRST SPACECRAFT to study Saturn and its rings during a fleeting encounter with the planet. The trouble with spacecraft undertaking grand tours of ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Boris V. Somov

Gritsyk, P.A., Somov, B.V.: The kinetic description of the accelerated-electron flux in solar flares. Moscow Univ. Phys. Bull. 66(5), 466–472 (2011) [Sect. 4.5.5] Gurevich, A.V.: On the theory of runaway ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Piers Bizony

PART FIVE Blast Radius How could people of conscience create weapons of mass destruction? We live in an age of localised terrorism, and sometimes we forget that the atom bomb ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics April 22,2020 )