03782nam a22005535i 4500 978-981-97-2588-5 DE-He213 20251030112052.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240521s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819725885 978-981-97-2588-5 10.1007/978-981-97-2588-5 doi QB4-4.9 PGG bicssc SCI004000 bisacsh PGG thema Gangopadhyay, Gautam. author. (orcid)0000-0003-3839-0537 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3839-0537 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 77214 Rhythm in the Sky [electronic resource] : Periodic Motions in the Universe / by Gautam Gangopadhyay, Anirban Kundu. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XV, 211 p. 74 illus., 46 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Rhythm Engineering, 2524-5554 On Periodic Motion -- On Electromagnetism and Gravity -- The Calendar, the Day and the Hour -- Highways in the Sky -- Flickering Candles: Cepheid variable stars -- Stars that Breathe. This book provides a brief and pedagogic introduction to a variety of topics, with a common motif that they all occur, in some way or other, in “the sky”, and involve some sort of “rhythm”. Sky is not just the inside of a dome; there are many strata, each with its own beauties and mysteries. As we go up, the atmosphere thins out and ends, and we move into the space, into the realms of planets, asteroids, and comets, and even further, beyond the solar system into the vast Milky Way galaxy. This is where the night sky comes in, with all its twinkling stars, the stars in our own galaxy. We must use telescopes to explore further. In this book, we will start from the ancient astronomers and how they studied the motion of earth through space. Study of planetary orbits, from Kepler and Newton to Einstein, had been fascinating. We will try to take the reader through the wonderful worlds of the cepheid variables and pulsars to the strange oscillations of the neutrinos and the new eye to look at the universe, namely the gravitational waves. The book stops at the discovery of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, but that is just because we must stop somewhere, or the assortment could go on ad infinitum. Some of these topics are highly mathematical in nature, but we will try to avoid the complicated mathematics as much as possible, without compromising with the rigor. Astronomy Observations. 67976 Quantum physics. 66608 Mechanics, Applied. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. 67977 Quantum Physics. 66608 Engineering Mechanics. Kundu, Anirban. author. (orcid)0000-0002-0087-4117 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0087-4117 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 77215 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819725878 Printed edition: 9789819725892 Printed edition: 9789819725908 Studies in Rhythm Engineering, 2524-5554 70508 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2588-5 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 60026 60026