John D. Fix, Fix John

Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier with Essential Study Partner CD-ROM and Starry Nights 3.1 CD-ROM

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough background in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed..

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Revised
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 232mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1964g
• ISBN-13: 9780072996975
• ISBN-10: 0072996978
• Artikelnr.: 21718868

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Journey Begins 1 Journey's Start 2 Patterns in the Sky 3 Ancient
Astronomy 4 Renaissance Astronomy 5 Gravity and Motion 6 Light and
Telescopes 2 Journey Through the Solar System 7 Overview of the Solar
System 8 The Earth 9 The Moon 10 Mercury and Venus 11 Mars 12 Jupiter and
Saturn 13 The Outer Planets 14 Satellites 15 Solar System Debris 3 Journey
to the Stars 16 Basic Properties of Stars 17 The Sun 18 The Formation of
Stars and Planets 19 The Evolution of Stars 20 White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars,
and Black Holes 21 Binary Star Systems 4 Journey to the Cosmic Frontier 22
The Milky Way 23 Galaxies 24 Quasars and Other Active Galaxies 25 Galaxy
Clusters and the Structure of the Universe 26 Cosmology 5 The Journey in
Search of Life 27 Life in the Universe Appendixes 1 Mathematical and
Physical Constants 2 Astronomical Constants 3 Conversion Factors 4 Orbital
Properties of the Planets 5 Physical Properties of the Planets 6 Properties
of the Satellites of the Planets 7 Orbital Properties of Selected Asteroids
8 Orbital Properties of Selected Comets 9 Properties of Selected Meteor
Showers 10 The Constellations 11 Stars Nearer Than Four Parsecs 12 The
Brightest Stars 13 Known and Suspected Members of the Local Group of
Galaxies 14 The Brightest Galaxies Beyond the Local Group 15 Properties of
Selected Clusters of Galaxies 16 Logarithmic Graphs 17 Answers to
Odd-Numbered Questions