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Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction
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This text is aimed primarily at third- and fourth-year undergraduate students of astronomy or physics, who have undertaken the first year or two of university-level studies in physics. We hope that graduate students and research workers in related areas will also find it useful as an introduction to the field. Some background knowledge of astronomy would be helpful, but we have tried to summarize the necessary facts and ideas in our introductory chapter, and we give references to books offering a fuller treatment. This book is intended to provide more than enough material for a one-semester course, since instructors will differ in their preferences for areas to emphasize and those to omit. After working through it,readers should find themselves prepared to tackle standard graduate texts such as Binney and Tremaine’s Galactic Dynamics, and review articles such as those in the Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics.Astronomy is not an experimental science like physics; it is a natural science like geology or meteorology. We must take the Universe as we find it, and deduce how the basic properties of matter have constrained the galaxies that happened to form.
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