Foundations of Astrophysics Instructor Solutions Manual

✍ Scribed by Barbara Ryden, Bradley M. Peterson, Jessica M. Orwig

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 154
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This manual provides complete solutions to the end-of-chapter exercises for Foundations of Astrophysics by Barbara Ryden and Bradley M. Peterson, a first course in astrophysics intended primarily for second-year majors in the physical sciences. SI units, augmented when necessary by various units peculiar to astronomy, are used throughout. In the written solutions, units are given whenever they may not be obvious.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Early Astronomy 1
2 Emergence of Modern Astronomy 7
3 Orbital Mechanics 13
4 The Earth–Moon System 23
5 The Interaction of Radiation and Matter 29
6 Astronomical Detection of Light 37
7 The Sun 43
8 Overview of the Solar System 49
9 Earth and Moon 53
10 The Planets 61
11 Small Bodies in the Solar System 69
12 The Solar System in Perspective 73
13 Properties of Stars 79
14 Stellar Atmospheres 87
15 Stellar Interiors 91
16 The Interstellar Medium 97
17 Formation and Evolution of Stars 103
18 Stellar Remnants 107
19 Our Galaxy 115
20 Galaxies 123
21 Active Galaxies 129
22 Clusters and Superclusters 135
23 Cosmology 139
24 History of the Universe 143