Radiative Processes
Spring 2019

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

MATHEMATICAL WEBSITES

• On-line function integrator
• Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions

RESOURCES

• Constants (cgs units)

REFERENCES

• "Bremsstrahlung, Synchrotron Radiation, and Compton Scattering of High-Energy Electrons Traversing Dilute Gases" Blumenthal & Gould, RMP, vol 42, p 237 [1970].
• "Cosmic Magnetobremsstrahlung (Synchrotron Radiation)" Ginzburg & Syrovatskii, ARA&A, 3, 297 [1965]
• "Cosmic Magnetobremsstrahlung (Synchrotron Radiation)" Ginzburg & Syrovatskii, ARA&A, 3, 297 [1965]
• "Developments in the Theory of Synchrotron Radiation and its Reabsorption" Ginzburg & Syrovatskii, ARA&A, 7, 375 [1969]
• "Overview of Collisional Plasma Modeling" Smith & Brickhouse, published on CXC Web site [June 2002].

ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES

• Astronomy codes
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• Astronomical animations
• A compendium of NASA space science missions.
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
  • Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
  • Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  • John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
  • Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
  • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942- )

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Please send any comments to Jack Hughes, jph[at]physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised March 5, 2019