astroclubiitk/rad-2020

Handbook summarising and analyzing chapters from Frank Shu: The Physical Universe as a treat for the readers sitting at home. The soft copy of the book can be found in README.

RAD Handbook, Summer Project 2020

The Physical Universe

An Introduction to Astronomy : Frank H. Shu

UPDATE : Our summer project won award in the category "The Best Documentation" by SnT Council, IITK 👏 👏

One of the most celebrated books to dive deep into astronomy 🌠, we members of Astronomy Club at IIT Kanpur read, discussed and analysed some of the interesting chapters, namely 14, 15 and 16 in this 2020 lockdown.

Here you can find an easy-to-understand handbook containing

• Chapter 14: Clusters of Galaxies and the Expansion of the Universe
• Chapter 15: Gravitation and Cosmology
• Chapter 16: The Big Bang
• Mathematics : Tensors

We have covered each topic from the chapter, whilst maintaining simplicity in the beautiful Latex format.

Find the acknowledgements and bibliography(references) in the pdf itself.

So wear your nerdy hat 🤓 and enjoy our small effort as part of RAD Project 2020 @ AstroClubIITK.

Star the repo if it you liked it, or atleast if it inspired you in some way or the other.

PS : Do read the book, it is worth it. I have also uploaded soft copy of the entire book 📔 so you don't have to scratch your heads on the Google (the links are messed up, believe me).