Stars and Atoms
by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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About this eBook
- Author
- Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944
- Title
- Stars and atoms
- Original Publication
- New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927.
- Credits
- Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Atoms
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 73362
- Release Date
- April 8, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STARS AND ATOMS
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.LECTURE I THE INTERIOR OF A STAR — Temperature in the Interior — Ionization of Atoms — Radiation Pressure and Mass — The Interior of a Star — Opacity of Stellar Matter — The Relation of Brightness to Mass — Dense Stars
- 7.LECTURE II SOME RECENT INVESTIGATIONS — The Story of Algol — The Story of the Companion of Sirius — Unknown Atoms and Interpretation of Spectra — Spectral Series — The Cloud in Space — The Sun’s Chromosphere — The Story of Betelgeuse
- 8.LECTURE III THE AGE OF THE STARS — Pulsating Stars — The Cepheid as a ‘Standard Candle’ — The Contraction Hypothesis — Subatomic Energy — Evolution of the Stars — Radiation of Mass — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.APPENDIX — Further Remarks on the Companion of Sirius
- 10.Untitled
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