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In its first two editions, Practical Astronomy With Your Calculator enjoyed tremendous success. Using clear and logical
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Loved it!.......2007-01-29
If you're into astronomy and like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is your book. Combine it with a good reference, like Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
Turn the crank.......2006-01-29
Heavy on getting you the answer and light on the specifics of the theory behind getting you there, Practical Astronomy with your Calculator does exactly what the author purports -- gives you a simple set of equations that will tell you the wheres and whens of astronomical phenomena.
Awesome introduction to Astronomy.......2004-05-31
I read this book way back in 1989 in India at IIT library,
and implemented it in Turbo pascal on 8086/DOS.
It provides explanations of coordinate systems, time, date,
and calculations. Very well written, this is what Astronomy
was about, if you have read NEWTON's principia, or wondered
what Gauss did.
Check out Xephem (Free astronomy program for linux/X with source
code in C), Alw.exe (Astronomy lab almanac generator/DOS), if you want instant answers.
I also use Redshift 4, and starry nights on my pc to get
the star maps.
- Mosh http://www.cs.albany.edu/~mosh
Excellent Value at $11.80.......2003-11-26
Amateur astronomers will be able to solve a multitude of practical problems with this book. If you are short on funds and have time to explore, this is the book for you. It is well organized and reasonably complete.
The extremely concise - bordering on laconic - style poses the danger that some readers may become discouraged and will give up. The low price makes it a tempting entry-level book, but the terse explanations means you'll have to do a lot of digging, which is a cookbook recipe to discourage newcomers to a field.
I have two critiques of this otherwise excellent work.
1.) The formulae presented in this book are a little too "cookbook" in for my tastes.
2.) Further they are only weakly validated, so it is difficult to know how accurate the results are.
The cookbook nature provides little insight into the physical problem being solved. It did motivate me to buy and study Smart's "Spherical Astronomy". If you want more than superficial answers, you'll need to dig deeper.
Validation is rarely a problem for amateurs. Most people who buy this book will program the recipes on their home computers. (Most are readily amenable to treatment in spreadsheets.) So far, no problem. But how do you know whether or not your calculation of the position of Mars 60,000 ago is any good?
I think that Meeus and Montenbruck largely avoid these problems, but at a much higher selling price.
Very good book.......2002-10-04
This is a very good book. You have short explanation and practical application in calculating celestial coordinate transformation,calendar transformation, planets position,eclipse etc. and even precession phenomena. For this latter, elementary knowledge of matrix calculation would be helpful: in any case without going through matrix theory the practicals rules in how to handle them are given.
I strongly advise this book to anybody interested in practical and easy calculation (with high accuracy) of the most important astronomical phenomena.
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Essential for writing astronomy applications.......2007-08-14
Impressive collection of algorithms for all types of astronomical calculations. Thorough description of HOW to implement the formulas. Relatively few derivations/explanations of WHY the equations work. Some of the material is a bit disjointed in sequence, but still usable. This appears to be THE reference to buy - save lots of time over trying to find or derive the formulas on your own.
Excellent Information for Astronomical Calculations.......2006-08-26
This book is very useful for writing astronomy programs, and it gives an essential foundation for astrology programs. The information is a little dispersed throughout the book. It isn't written as a textbook, but rather as a solid reference, and in this way, it excels. Sometimes, the book gives two or three different ways of arriving at the same result with varying degrees of accuracy. It has something for everyone interested in the movements of the sky, and whether you're casually interested in astronomy or a programmer of ephemerides, you need this book.
Extremely Practical for Designing Astronomical Software.......2005-12-06
I am an amateur astromer and amateur software designer. Meeus' book is absolutely invaluable for producing programs that require knowledge of the locations of the Sun, Moon and planets at any particular time. It's worth the price alone for the algorithms of Jupiter's natural satellites. The simple algorithm for lunar eclipses is amazing. I have written countless sub-routines and functions based on both large and small bits of data in Meeus' book. Thank you, Jean Meeus!
Useful for astronomers, not very useful for laymen.......2004-01-26
Okay, so you're a programmer and an astronomer? Then this book is for you! No other book has a complete programs and algorithm for computing problems in astronomy. You wan't to convert astronomical coordinate system? Calculate the date of easter? Counting Julian Day Number? Determine the date of perihelion and aphelion of all the nine planets? Computing the positions of the satellite of Jupiter? Everything can be done, and much-much more! What surprises me is that not only that this book covers more advanced topics like calculating eclipses and moon phases, but also a few popular and useful topics like calculating easter, which is usually don't covered by books of similar topic.
Several method and tips for programming are also covered here, along with some method for accuracy. However, that's about all. You don't know how to program? Then learn some Pascal or Fortran from other books. You don't know a bit about astronomy? Well, this book cover some basic theory, but that's just about all. So one of the drawback of this book is that it doesn't cover much ground on the teory. The reader is expected to have some background on it. Reasonable, since this book is meant to become a textbook for astronomical computations.
Excellent reference book!.......2003-03-05
With his special knack for computations of all sorts, Jean Meeus has made the essentials of powerful new machine methods for modeling the motions and interactions of bodies within the solar system available to us all. The second edition contains new chapters about the Jewish and Moslem Calendars, the satellites of Saturn, and a new Appendix giving expressions (polynomials) for the heliocentric coordinates of the giant planets Jupiter to Neptune from 1998 to 2025.
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In their solutions, the authors have attempted to convey a mode of approach to these kinds of problems, revealing procedures that can reduce the labor of calculations while avoiding the pitfall of too much or too powerful formalism. Although well suited for individual use, the volume may also be used with one of the modern textbooks in general relativity.
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Good book.......2007-09-10
I found it very helpful for my General Relativity course. There is really nothing else like this out there ... and for those of us that learn best by example, this book is a bargain.
Understanding Einstein Thorey of Gravitation.......2000-05-26
This is a capital book for all the Physics students, it give a good overview of the theory through a huge set of problems of the main parts in the theory. Good exercices and understandable solutions, that will make you easier the way to understand General relativity. I think this book has the key to fully understand Einstein gravitation. A good choose !
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Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions. The problems are arranged following the content of the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by K. Rohlfs and T.L.Wilson (also available in the this series) on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Some of these problems have been formulated to provide an extension to the material presented in "Tools of Radio Astronomy".
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This innovative book provides a clear and pedagogical introduction to research through a series of problems and answers. The author has designed the problems to develop each core topic in a simple and coherent way, and he provides full solutions to make this book completely self-contained. The first half of the book covers the core subjects of astrophysical processes, gravitational dynamics, radiative processes, fluid mechanics and general relativity. The second half uses these concepts to develop modern cosmology; topics include the Friedmann model and thermal history, the dynamics of dark matter and baryons in an expanding universe, the physics of high-redshift objects and the very early universe. This unique self-study textbook will be of key interest to graduate students and researchers in cosmology, astrophysics, relativity and theoretical physics. It is particularly well suited to graduate-level courses.
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Hard... but excellent!.......1998-04-18
This is a very welcomed book for graduate students in astrophysics. Although I have only scratched the surface of the topics, I find its format and distribution very well organized. The solutions are also clearly exposed, but you need a very high background to work on the problems entirely on your own.
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The book exposes contemporary analytical and semianalytical techniques for solving typical celestial mechanics problems by computer. It presents new algorithms of perturbation theory and helps to develop, on the basis of some general computer algebra systems, specialized software enabling one to construct analytical theories of the motion of celestial objects. Particular attention is paid to applying the elliptic functions expansions to economize on the number of terms in the resulting series in problems with large values of parameters. Even problems considered as intractable may now be treated efficiently.
The author addresses not only astronomers but also amateurs interested in orbit calculations for celestial objects or satellites.
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Classical Theoretical Physics is based on the highly successful series of courses given by Walter Greiner at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the volumes in the series provide not only a complete survey of classical theoretical physics but also an enormous number of worked examples and problems to show students clearly how to apply the abstract principles to realistic problems.
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Excellent supplementary book.......2006-08-18
Simply stated, I don't consider this "the book" on the subject, but it is a most-have. It begins by developing some of the mathematical foundations needed to solve the problems; followed by some Newtonian mechanics (basic concepts: force, energy, motion in 1D-3D, and many examples and applications), and ends with special relativity. The topics are presented in a clear and straight-forward manner, although some of them were too simple and not as thorough as I wished.
This book corresponds to a regular 1st semester in mechanics. It should be complemented with the second book (Classical Mechanics) which deals with non-inertial reference frames, systems of particles, rigid bodies, Lagrange equ. and Hamiltonian Theory.
I give this book 4.5 stars (I'm a tough grader)
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Learning through experimenting.......2000-03-25
As a professor of Astronomy, for a long time I have been trying to find the best way to help students fixate concepts that they mostly learn through formulas. This book is a very good tool for high-school and undergraduate professors with this purpose. I recommend its experiments since they are easy to be reproduced and understood.
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Out of date, but still useful.......2000-03-20
This book was a best-seller when it was first published because it was almost the only one source that could help amateurs to unveil the hidden misteries of ephemerides computing.
The book was written before the era of the personal computer, when a common person only had access to those luxurious HP or TI programmable calculators, and therefore you cannot expect to get highly accurate results from it because its algorithms were designed to run on those quite limited machines.
You could find this book's algorithms useful if you want a fast calculation and you don't need high precision.
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Ferguson's flexible and useful INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY EXERCISES, Second Edition, provides readers with laboratory exercises that are well-tested, current, and flexible to individual needs. These labs have a variety of origins and authors, and bring a broad range of activity to the introductory astronomy lab. Most require only inexpensive equipment. INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY EXERCISES, Second Edition, gives readers practical experience with the things they only read about in their book, such as using a telescope and CCD photography. Ferguson groups the exercises together by whether they deal with the solar system or stars and other objects beyond the solar system. Three introductory exercises on using telescopes, viewing constellations and the Celestial Sphere, and using numbers in science set the stage and help readers overcome anxiety. A combination of indoor and outdoor labs allows for adjustments due to weather conditions.
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