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Title: Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe by Michael A. Dopita, Ralph S. Sutherland, Gustav S. Schweiger ISBN: 3-540-43362-7 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Topical, but lots of typos
Comment: I used this as my textbook when teaching a graduate course on the interstellar medium. It has good explanations of a lot of current material, and includes some very detailed derivations for the advanced or interested reader. However, a lot of the basics are glossed over or not clearly explained - this book really needs to go hand in hand with Spitzer's "Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium" to provide a complete picture. In any case, the big problem with this book is the ridiculous number of errors and typos (I and my students found over 100). This would just be annoying if all these errors were minor things like spelling mistakes. However, many of the errors are catastrophic, e.g. explaining spectroscopic notation but getting the labels all wrong, errors in the derivation of atomic levels, a calculation of cooling timescales which is wrong by a factor of 10^5, etc etc. This proved a very frustrating experience for me and for my students. Unless a second edition comes out with all these mistakes corrected, next time I will likely use this book for reference, but not recommend it to the students, so as to spare them this pain.
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Title: The Physics of the Interstellar Medium (The Graduate Series in Astronomy) by J. E. Dyson, D. A. Williams ISBN: 075030460X Publisher: Institute of Physics Pub Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei by Donald E. Osterbrock ISBN: 0935702229 Publisher: University Science Books Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
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Title: Galactic Dynamics by James Binney, Scott Tremaine, Scot Tremaine ISBN: 0691084459 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics by George B. Rybicki, Alan P. Lightman ISBN: 0471827592 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 26 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $99.50 |
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Title: Astrophysical Quantities by C. W. Allen, Arthur N. Cox ISBN: 0387987460 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $99.00 |
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