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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486605906

ISBN-139780486605906

eBay Product ID (ePID)1039089

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameRadiative Transfer

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPhysics / Astrophysics, Mechanics / Thermodynamics

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorS. Chandrasekhar

Subject AreaScience

SeriesDover Books on Physics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal523.01

SynopsisThis book by a Nobel Laureate provides the foundation for analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Suitable for students and professionals in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies. 1950 edition., " Radiative Transfer is the definitive work in the field. It provides workers and students in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies with the foundation for the analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Though radiative transfer has been investigated chiefly as a phenomenon of astrophysics, in recent years it has attracted the attentions of physicists as well, since essentially the same problems arise in the theory of diffusion of neutrons." -- Morton D. Hall, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Chandrasekhar presents the subject of radiative transfer in plane-parallel atmosphere as a branch of mathematical physics, with its own characteristic methods and techniques. He begins with a formulation and analysis of fundamental problems. It is shown how allowance can be made for the polarization of the radiation field by using a set of parameters first introduced by Stokes. Successive chapters deal with transfer problems in semi-infinite and finite atmosphere; Rayleigh scattering; the radiative equilibrium of a stellar atmosphere; and related astrophysical and mathematical problems. The mathematical methods employed are extremely powerful, and by means of them it has been possible to handle problems which could not be treated previously, such as the scattering of polarized light., This book by a Nobel Laureate provides the foundation for analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Radiation transfer has been investigated as a phenomenon of astrophysics, and it has attained wider interest because of similar problems in the theory of neutron diffusion. Suitable for students and professionals in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies. 1950 edition.