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Physical processes in the interstellar medium
- Title
- Physical processes in the interstellar medium / Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
- Author
- Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 318 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Wiley classics library
- Uniform Title
- Wiley classics library.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
- Based in part on an earlier book, Diffuse matter in space, published in 1968.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Interstellar Matter - An Overview -- Ch. 2. Elastic Collisions and Kinetic Equilibrium -- Ch. 3. Radiative Processes -- Ch. 4. Excitation -- Ch. 5. Ionization and Dissociation -- Ch. 6. Kinetic Temperature -- Ch. 7. Optical Properties of Grains -- Ch. 8. Polarization and Grain Alignment -- Ch. 9. Physical Properties of Grains -- Ch. 10. Dynamical Principles -- Ch. 11. Overall Equilibrium -- Ch. 12. Explosive Motions -- Ch. 13. Gravitational Motion.
- ISBN
- 0471293350
- OCLC
- 39707235
- ocm39707235
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries