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.
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"Roger Tayler's 'The Sun As a Star', a modern precis of Hale's idea, is an excellent introduction to the Sun and its local environment. Tayler...admirably reviews, at the vector calculus level, basic plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics...The book flows well, with summaries of each chapter and detailed coverage of collateral topics in appendices...Tayler's book is needed and should remain a useful introduction to the subject for some years." Sallie Baliunas, Physics Today
"Tayler's book provides a good starting point for a scientist or engineer who is interested in learning more about the Sun and active stars." Meteoritics & Planetary Science
"Tayler's book provides a good starting point for a scientist or engineer who is interested in learning more about the Sun and active stars." Meteoritics & Planetary Science
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As our nearest star, the Sun offers a unique opportunity to study stellar physics. Following the success of his previous books, Galaxies and The Stars, Roger Tayler presents the first fully integrated textbook on how studies of the Sun and the solar system help us understand stars in general and other planetary systems. Handy appendices give succinct derivations of relevant background theory, ensuring that this 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.
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The Sun is responsible for our existence and it is therefore no wonder that many ancient civilizations worshipped the Sun as a god. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other active stars, dynamo maintenance, solar nebula theory, normal photosphere, outer convection zone, hot coronae, reactions converting hydrogen, enhanced solar wind, magnetospheric cavity, overshoot region, outer solar atmosphere, solar oscillations, dynamo number, mass main sequence stars, magnetic braking, solar convection zone, solar dynamo, stellar activity, magnetic buoyancy, polar spots, solar interior, magnetohydrodynamic waves, corotation radius, magnetospheric boundary, rotational splitting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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other active stars, dynamo maintenance, solar nebula theory, normal photosphere, outer convection zone, hot coronae, reactions converting hydrogen, enhanced solar wind, magnetospheric cavity, overshoot region, outer solar atmosphere, solar oscillations, dynamo number, mass main sequence stars, magnetic braking, solar convection zone, solar dynamo, stellar activity, magnetic buoyancy, polar spots, solar interior, magnetohydrodynamic waves, corotation radius, magnetospheric boundary, rotational splitting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Neutrino Astrophysics by John N. Bahcall on page 55, page 58, and Back Matter
- The origin of the solar system: The capture theory (The Ellis Horwood library of space science and space technology) by John R Dormand on page 196, and Back Matter
- Solar Magnetohydrodynamics (Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs) by E.R. Priest on page 102, and Back Matter
- Solar and Stellar Activity Cycles (Cambridge Astrophysics) by Peter R. Wilson in Back Matter
- Physics Of Space Plasmas: An Introduction by George K Parks in Back Matter
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- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun by Kenneth R. Lang in Back Matter
- A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space by Michael W. Friedlander on page 78
- An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution by Dina Prialnik in Back Matter
- Physics of the Solar System: Dynamics and Evolution, Space Physics, and Spacetime Structure (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by B. Bertotti on page 259
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