Thomas Arny

Explorations: Stars, Galaxies and Planets, Update, with Essential Study Partner CD-ROM and Starry Nights 3.1 CD-ROM

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Produktbeschreibung

The text takes all of the features that have made Arny Explorations a top-selling textbook and applies them under a stars-first approach. This new edition continues to offer the most complete technology/new media support package available. That technology/new media package includes: 6 NEW Interactives; PowerWeb (web-based research and interactive quizzing - very current); Online Learning Center (that allows instructors to take their course to the web if they choose); and a new CD-ROM that offers new and different text material/animations/links to even further enhance student comprehension.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 215mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 1311g
• ISBN-13: 9780072996999
• ISBN-10: 0072996994
• Artikelnr.: 21500046

Autorenporträt

Tom Arny is an Emeritus professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was associated there with the Five College Astronomy Program(comprising faculty from U-Mass, Amhurst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges). Dr. Arny received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona. In addition to his interest in astronomy, he has a long-standing fascination with the natural world: weather (especially atmospheric optics such as rainbows), birds, wildflowers, and butterflies. Visit Dr. Arny's website at: http://www.astro.umass.edu/~arny/astro100.html

Inhaltsangabe

Preview The Cosmic Landscape
1 History of Astronomy
Essay 1 Backyard Astronomy
2 Gravity and Motion
3 Light and Atoms
4 Telescopes
5 The Sun, Our Star
6 Measuring the Properties of Stars
7 Stellar Evolution
8 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
9 The Milky Way Galaxy
10 Galaxies
11 Cosmology
12 The Earth
Essay 2 Keeping Time
13 The Moon
14 Survey of the Solar System
15 The Terrestrial Planets
16 The Outer Planets
17 Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets
Essay 4 Life in the Universe
Appendix
Powers-of-Ten Notation
Some Useful Formulas
Solving Distance, Velocity, Time (D, v, t)
Problems