Python Experiments in Physics and Astronomy

Padraig Houlahan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-98189-5 (ISBN)

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Python Experiments in Physics and Astronomy acts as a resource for science and engineering students or faculty who would like to see how a diverse selection of topics can be analyzed and simulated using Python programs. The book also provides Python solutions that can be learned from and modified as needed. The book is mainly aimed at undergraduates, but since many science students and faculty have limited exposure to scientific programming, having a collection of examples that address curve-fitting, Fast Fourier Transforms, image photometry and image alignment, and many others could be very helpful not just for learning from, but also to support classroom projects and demonstrations.

Key Features:

Features tutorials using Python for non-computer science students and faculty involved with scientific programming
Contains complete scientific programming examples for teaching and academic projects
Presents detailed Python solutions for Physics and Astronomy topics, not normally covered in depth, because they would be too time-consuming

Purchasers of the book can access the accompanying computer code via the Instructor Resources Download Hub.

Padraig Houlahan recently retired from a career spanning both college teaching and IT management. He was the IT Director for Lowell Observatory for almost 17 years, and a systems analyst for Oregon State University before that. Prior to working in IT, Houlahan was an Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and after a career in IT, he returned to teaching Physics for ERAU.

1. Python and Object Oriented Design Notes. 2. Exploring Data. 3. Signals and Trends. 4. Gravity Fields and Mass Distributions. 5. Spiral Galaxies and Dark Matter. 6. Sampling a Distribution. 7. Projectiles – The German 88. 8. Rocket Launches. 9. Building a star catalog from an image. 10. Photometry: Measuring object brightness. 11. Aligning Images and Finding Targets. 12. The Saha Equation and the Balmer Spectrum. 13. Isochrons – The Ages of Rocks.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	103 Line drawings, color; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, color; 111 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	556 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-032-98189-X / 103298189X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-98189-5 / 9781032981895
Zustand	Neuware