Problems of Cosmology and Stellar Dynamics

Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics is a theoretical prelude to Jeans's later and more mature work on the subject, Astronomy and Cosmogony.

James Jeans (Author)

9781108005685, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

316 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics is a theoretical prelude to Jeans's later and more mature work on the subject, Astronomy and Cosmogony. The impetus for publishing his theories on the behaviour of rotating masses, and on general dynamical theory, was the 1917 Adams Prize on the 'rotating and gravitating fluid mass'. Jeans won the prize with the core text of this volume. Enlarging on that work, and utilising the burgeoning results of astronomy, as well as the author's bolder theoretical conjectures, this book became a solid foundation for substantial progress in cosmology.

1. Introductory chapter
2. General dynamical principles
3. Ellipsoidal configurations of equilibrium
4. The gravitational potential of a distorted ellipsoid
5. Pear-shaped configurations of equilibrium
6. Motion when there are no stable configurations of equilibrium
7. The motion of compressible and non-homogeneous masses
8. The evolution of gaseous masses
9. The evolution of rotating nebulae
10. The evolution of star-clusters
11. The evolution of binary and multiple stars
12. The origin and evolution of the solar system.

Subject Areas: Astronomy, space & time [PG]