John Clark Craig - author of Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
Top 10 Best "Astrophysics" Books
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Galactic Dynamics James Binney
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High-Energy Astrophysics (Princeton Series in Astrophysics)Fulvio MeliaAstrophysics |
During the 1980's and 1990's Microsoft's Visual Basic language was always somewhat of a moving target. During this time frame John Clark Craig authored several versions of a book published by Microsoft Press titled Visual Basic Developer's Workshop, with each new edition of the book corresponding to the next numbered version of Visual Basic. Reader's eagerly paid good money for each new edition of this book simply because so much had changed with each version of the language! Visual Basic .Net, on the other hand, has to date gone through four releases, and code developed to run under version 1.0 generally runs perfectly well with no changes when compiled for the very latest version. This syntax stability is a welcome change, and one that will help published algorithms remain viable for many years to come. |
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Understanding the UniverseJames B. SeabornBooks |
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Astrophysics is Easy!Mike InglisBooks |
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Foundations of Astrophysics Barbara Ryden
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Astrophysics for PhysicistsChoudhuri Arnab RaiBooks |
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Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, An (2nd Edition) Bradley W. Carroll
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Theoretical AstrophysicsT. PadmanabhanBooks |
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Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series) Stephen A. Gregory
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AstrophysicsWilliam K RoseBooks |
Light travels very fast. If it were to cicle the earth at the equator it could make about 7 round trips in one second. The moon is about a quarter of a million miles from earth, yet moonlight travels from there to earth in about 1.29 seconds. The sun is much further away, and proportionately larger than the moon as well. Light requires about 8 1/3 minutes to make the trip from the sun to earth. The nearest star, of the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, is much further away yet. Even at it's fantastically fast speed, light from the nearest star requires about 4 1/2 years to reach your eyes. We're located in a moderately sized galaxy with a diameter of about 100,000 light years. Light from one edge of our galaxy takes about 100,000 years to travel to the other edge. Our galaxy is but one amongst many hundreds of billions of galaxies. Light requires millions to billions of years to hop between these. |
Bonus
Astrophysics in a NutshellDan MaozAstrophysics |
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Black Holes and Time Warps Kip S. Thorne
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