Bøger af Walter J. Maciel

This book provides a comprehensive overview of stellar structure, evolution and basic stellar properties.

Introduces hydrodynamics to undergraduate students in physics and astrophysics. Stellar winds are a common phenomenon in the life of stars, from the dwarfs like the Sun to the red giants and hot supergiants, constituting one of the basic aspects of modern astrophysics.

The space between the stars contains objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to galaxies. This book examines these processes and presents simple numeric estimates of the main quantities relevant to the interstellar medium.