A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott
| A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott |
| Autore | Tyson Neil deGrasse |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 523.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics
Cosmology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Accelerating expansion of the universe
Accretion (astrophysics) Alpha particle Andromeda Galaxy Angular diameter Astrobiology Astrophysics Atomic nucleus Barred spiral galaxy Big Bang Calculation Chemical element Chronology of the universe Circumference Copernican principle Cosmic Background Explorer Cosmic microwave background Cosmic string Cosmogony Dark energy De Sitter space Deuterium Dimension Earth Einstein field equations Elementary particle Elliptic orbit Energy density Event horizon Exoplanet Extraterrestrial life Galactic Center Galactic year Galaxy cluster Googol Gravitational wave Gravity Hawking radiation Hubble Space Telescope Hubble's law Inflation (cosmology) Interstellar medium Irregular galaxy Jim Peebles Jupiter Kepler (spacecraft) Kuiper belt Light-year Longevity Luminosity Main sequence Measurement Metric expansion of space Milky Way Molecule Neutron star Neutron Newton's law of universal gravitation Nitrogen Nuclear fusion Nuclear reaction Observable universe Orion Nebula Photon Physicist Planck (spacecraft) Planetary habitability Planetary nebula Positron Prediction Pressure Quantity Quantum tunnelling Quasar Real Humans Red giant Result Satellite galaxy Saturn Shape of the universe Solar System Solar mass Spacecraft Spiral galaxy Star Supernova Temperature The Astrophysical Journal The Pluto Files Thermal radiation Universe Today Universe Uranus Vacuum energy Vacuum state Wavelength Weakly interacting massive particles Welcome to the Universe White dwarf Year |
| ISBN | 0-691-22361-0 |
| Classificazione | SCI005000SCI055000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note to the Reader -- 1 Size and Scale of the Universe -- 2 Pluto's Place in the Solar System -- 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars -- 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy -- 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole -- 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang -- 7 Inflation and the Multiverse -- 8 Our Future in the Universe -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554222803321 |
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Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems : With Special Emphasis on Celestial Mechanics (AM-77) / / Jurgen Moser
| Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems : With Special Emphasis on Celestial Mechanics (AM-77) / / Jurgen Moser |
| Autore | Moser Jurgen |
| Edizione | [With a New foreword by Philip J. Holmes] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 521/.1 |
| Collana | Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics |
| Soggetto topico | Celestial mechanics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Accuracy and precision
Action-angle coordinates Analytic function Bounded variation Calculation Chaos theory Coefficient Commutator Constant term Continuous embedding Continuous function Coordinate system Countable set Degrees of freedom (statistics) Degrees of freedom Derivative Determinant Differentiable function Differential equation Dimension (vector space) Discrete group Divergent series Divisor Duffing equation Eigenfunction Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Elliptic orbit Energy level Equation Ergodic theory Ergodicity Euclidean space Even and odd functions Existence theorem Existential quantification First-order partial differential equation Forcing function (differential equations) Fréchet derivative Gravitational constant Hamiltonian mechanics Hamiltonian system Hessian matrix Heteroclinic orbit Homoclinic orbit Hyperbolic partial differential equation Hyperbolic set Initial value problem Integer Integrable system Integration by parts Invariant manifold Inverse function Invertible matrix Iteration Jordan curve theorem Klein bottle Lie algebra Linear map Linear subspace Linearization Maxima and minima Monotonic function Newton's method Nonlinear system Normal bundle Normal mode Open set Parameter Partial differential equation Periodic function Periodic point Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) Phase space Poincaré conjecture Polynomial Probability theory Proportionality (mathematics) Quasiperiodic motion Rate of convergence Rational dependence Regular element Root of unity Series expansion Sign (mathematics) Smoothness Special case Stability theory Statistical mechanics Structural stability Symbolic dynamics Symmetric matrix Tangent space Theorem Three-body problem Uniqueness theorem Unitary matrix Variable (mathematics) Variational principle Vector field Zero of a function |
| ISBN | 1-4008-8269-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. STABILITY PROBLEMS -- III. STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- V. EXISTENCE PROOF IN THE PRESENCE OF SMALL DIVISORS -- VI. PROOFS AND DETAILS FOR CHAPTER III -- BOOKS AND SURVEY ARTICLES |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164944903321 |
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] | ||
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