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Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts – Vol. 2
ASTRONOMICAL
SPECTROSCOPY
An Introduction to the Atomic and
Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra
by
JONATHAN TENNYSON
University College Londomn, UK
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ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY
An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra
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PREFACE
This book follows closely a lecture course I gave entitled ‘Astronomical
Spectroscopy’ to third-year undergraduate students at University College
London between 1998 and 2003. The students who attended had done
a prior introductory course on Quantum Mechanics which covered the
hydrogen atom but no further atomic physics or spectroscopy. A similar
level of prior knowledge is assum