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9780072996975

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

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    9780072996975

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    0072996978

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-09
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

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