: Imperial College Press ;River Edge, NJ :Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
, 2004.
xiv, 513 p. , ill. (some col.) , 25 cm.
Print
Incluces bibliographical references (p. 459-467) and index.
Introduction / Louise Harra and Keith Mason -- Remote sensing of the Earth's climate system / Ian Mason -- Planetary science / Andrew Coates -- Space plasma physics : a primer / Christopher J. Owen -- Space weather / Sarah Matthews -- The physics of the sun / Louise Harra -- X-ray astronomy / Keith Mason -- Using quantum physics and spectroscopy to probe the physical universe / Louise Harra and Keith Mason -- An introduction to magnetohydrodynamics / Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi -- Minimal relativity / Kinwah Wu -- Cosmology / Mat Page -- Topics in practical statistics / Mark Cropper -- Instrumentation for photon detection in space / J.L. Culhane -- Space engineering / Alan Smith.