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Astronomy Media Workbook for the Cosmic Perspective the Essential Cosmic Perspective
by LOPRESTOEdition:
4th
ISBN13:
9780805392067
ISBN10:
0805392068
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
8/1/2006
Publisher(s):
PEARSON EDUCATION
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Summary
This innovative workbook provides a wide selection of engaging and instructive assignable media activities and projects using the highly acclaimed Astronomy Place Interactive Tutorials and Voyager: SkyGazer, College Edition v3.6 planetarium software. Activities are suitable for the lab or can be assigned as homework. Now updated to include the new Astronomy Place Interactive Tutorials, and expanded for a wider range of Voyager: SkyGazer activities.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Astronomy Place Web Tutorials | |
| Scale of the Universe | p. 3 |
| Lab Activity | p. 7 |
| The Seasons | p. 9 |
| Lab Activity | p. 13 |
| Eclipses | p. 15 |
| Lab Activity | p. 19 |
| Phases of the Moon | p. 21 |
| Lab Activity | p. 25 |
| Motion and Gravity | p. 27 |
| Lab Activity | p. 31 |
| Orbits and Kepler's Laws | p. 33 |
| Lab Activity | p. 37 |
| Energy | p. 39 |
| Lab Activity | p. 43 |
| Light and Spectroscopy | p. 45 |
| Lab Activity | p. 49 |
| The Doppler Effect | p. 51 |
| Lab Activity | p. 55 |
| Telescopes | p. 57 |
| Lab Activity | p. 61 |
| Formation of the Solar System | p. 63 |
| Lab Activity | p. 67 |
| Detecting Extrasolar Planets | p. 69 |
| Lab Activity | p. 73 |
| Shaping Planetary Surfaces | p. 75 |
| Lab Activity | p. 79 |
| Surface Temperature of Terrestrial Planets | p. 81 |
| Lab Activity | p. 85 |
| The Sun | p. 87 |
| Lab Activity | p. 91 |
| The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram | p. 93 |
| Lab Activity | p. 97 |
| Stellar Evolution | p. 99 |
| Lab Activity | p. 103 |
| Measuring Cosmic Distances | p. 105 |
| Lab Activity | p. 109 |
| Black Holes | p. 111 |
| Lab Activity | p. 113 |
| Detecting Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies | p. 115 |
| Lab Activity | p. 117 |
| Hubble's Law | p. 119 |
| Lab Activity | p. 121 |
| Fate of the Universe | p. 123 |
| Lab Activity | p. 125 |
| Voyager: Skygazer CD-ROM Activities | |
| Introducing SkyGazer | p. 129 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 137 |
| Motions of the Stars | p. 139 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 144 |
| Celestial Sphere | p. 147 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 154 |
| Motions of the Sun | p. 157 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 164 |
| The Ecliptic | p. 167 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 174 |
| Seasonal Constellations | p. 177 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 184 |
| The Seasons | p. 187 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 192 |
| Precession and Proper Motion | p. 195 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 204 |
| Phases of the Moon | p. 207 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 214 |
| Solar Eclipses | p. 217 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 225 |
| Lunar Eclipses | p. 227 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 231 |
| The Inferior Planets | p. 233 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 240 |
| The Superior Planets | p. 243 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 250 |
| Observing the Planets | p. 253 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 260 |
| Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors | p. 263 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 272 |
| Satellites and Spacecraft | p. 275 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 280 |
| The Solar System Planets, Moons, and Rings | p. 283 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 291 |
| Stars and The H-R Diagram | p. 293 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 299 |
| Galaxies-The Milky Way | p. 301 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 308 |
| The Universe-Hubble's Law | p. 311 |
| Check Your Understanding | p. 319 |
| Basic Concepts | p. 321 |
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