The Sun as a Star

ISBN-13: 9780521464642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

R. J. Tayler

Opis

Using mathematics appropriate for advanced undergraduate students in physics, this textbook provides a broad and wide-ranging introduction to the Sun as a star. Tayler provides succinct derivations of key results--such as the properties of spectral lines, the theory of stellar oscillations, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory--in nine handy appendices, ensuring that the book is completely self contained. Altogether, this is an invaluable textbook for students studying the Sun, stars, the solar-terrestrial environment and the formation of planetary systems.

Recenzje

'The wealth of data on the Sun makes for rich pickings, and Roger Tayler has not stinted on The Sun as a Star … The book is accurately pitched at the second and third-year university student, concentrating on those aspects of solar physics that help us to understand stars in general … The Sun as a Star clearly originates from a university lecture course. But Tayler has steered well away from the prosaic: what remains is a good, sharp, textbook.' David Hughes, New Scientist

Spis treści

Symbols; Numerical values; 1. Introduction; 2. Observations of the Sun and other stars; 3. The quiet Sun and stellar evolution; 4. Magnetic fields and fluid motions; 5. The active Sun; 6. Activity in other stars; 7. Solar-terrestrial relations; 8. The origin of the solar system; 9. Concluding remarks; Appendix 1. Thermodynamic equilibrium; Appendix 2. The Zeeman effect; Appendix 3. Atomic energy levels and spectral lines: forbidden transitions; Appendix 4. Theory of solar oscillations; Appendix 5. Motion of a charged particle in uniform electric and magnetic fields; Appendix 6. Magnetohydrodynamic waves; Appendix 7. Dynamo maintenance of magnetic fields; Appendix 8. Plasma properties; Appendix 9. Motion of a charged particle in a spatially varying magnetic field; Suggestions for further reading; Index.