"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
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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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