What are the stars? /

What are the stars? /

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Author / Creator:	Srinivasan, G. (Ganesan), 1942-
Imprint:	Berlin : Springer, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Undergraduate lecture notes in physics Undergraduate lecture notes in physics.
Subject:	Stars. Constellations. Astronomy. Astronomy. Constellations. Stars.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11083912

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ISBN:	9783642453021 3642453023 3642453015 9783642453014 9783642453014
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed Mar. 20, 2014).
Summary:	The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. Although the foundations of astrophysics were laid down by 1870, and the edifice was sufficiently built up by 1920, the definitive proof of many of the prescient conjectures made in the 1920s and 1930s came to be established less than ten years ago. This book discusses these recent developments in the context of discussing the nature of the stars, their stability and the source of the energy they radiate.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9783642453014
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1

Table of Contents:

What are the stars?
Stars as globes of gas
Eddington's theory of the stars
Why are the stars as they are?
Energy generation in the stars
Sounds of the sun
The smoking gun is finally found.