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Summary: Excellent overview of a fascinating topic
Review: The third volume in this series is an excellent text. It provides a good level of detail (ie, no hand-waving and no obsession with minutiae), moving efficiently through convection, energy generation, basic stellar structure equations, methods for calculating the models, evolution and tests of the models, star formation. It is worth noting that this book has the clearest description of degeneracy I have yet come across; this is a topic where many authors wave their hands and give a footnote, but she has taken the time to clearly delineate issues that many students find puzzling. This is a REAL text, so come prepared with the usual background in calculus, quantum, and thermodynamics.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent overview of a fascinating topic
Review: The third volume in this series is an excellent text. It provides a good level of detail (ie, no hand-waving and no obsession with minutiae), moving efficiently through convection, energy generation, basic stellar structure equations, methods for calculating the models, evolution and tests of the models, star formation. It is worth noting that this book has the clearest description of degeneracy I have yet come across; this is a topic where many authors wave their hands and give a footnote, but she has taken the time to clearly delineate issues that many students find puzzling. This is a REAL text, so come prepared with the usual background in calculus, quantum, and thermodynamics.
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