Astrophysics

A Very Short Introduction

Binney, James (Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, Head of the Sub-Department of Theoretical Physics and Professorial Fellow at Merton College.)

Oxford University Press, 2016

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Astrophysics is said to have been born when Isaac Newton saw an apple drop in his orchard and had the electrifying insight that the Moon falls just like that apple. James Binney shows how the application of physical laws derived on Earth allows us to understand objects that exist on the far side of the Universe.

ISBN-13
9780198752851
ISBN-10
0198752857
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-03-24
Pages
176
Dimensions
173 x 110 x 9
Weight
152