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Published on April 11, 2007 by ISM
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A classic in astronomy, but not worth the price for students
Here, Spitzer introduces many fundamental concepts in astronomy, and at the time it was written was perhaps the only single publication that covered all of the topics in the table of contents from a fairly fundamental level. When I paid $80 for this book for an Interstellar Medium course about 5 years ago, the instructor said he would not have...
Published on December 5, 1997
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A classic in astronomy, but not worth the price for students,
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This review is from: Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium (Hardcover)
Here, Spitzer introduces many fundamental concepts in astronomy, and at the time it was written was perhaps the only single publication that covered all of the topics in the table of contents from a fairly fundamental level.When I paid $80 for this book for an Interstellar Medium course about 5 years ago, the instructor said he would not have required it had he known the price. Now it stands at $112! If this material is important to you and you do not have a well developed graduate level curriculum to study from, then perhaps it is worthhwhile, otherwise I recommend "Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei" by Donald E. Osterbrock for $36 as an excellent substitute, though you won't find much on dust grains and kinetics in it. For those topics you should go to review articles and a statistical mechanics text anyway! Spitzer was a great astronomer and he wrote what was at the time an indispensible book, but at this price think carefully before you buy.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book,
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This review is from: Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium (Wiley Classics Library) (Paperback)
good booklot's of useful informations. It's good to have one. |
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Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium by Lyman Spitzer (Hardcover - Jan. 1978)
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