Redshift College Edition Astronomy Workbook

by Walker, Bill O.

• ISBN13: 9780534490317
• ISBN10: 053449031X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Written by Bill O. Walker, late of Tyler Junior College, this is the ideal exploration companion. This comprehensive workbook, lab manual, and field guide is complete in 34 sections and five appendices. Updated to incorporate user feedback and increase navigational clarity, this workbook is ideal for students, amateur astronomers and all stargazers. Exercises lead the user step-by-step through real astronomical observations using RedShift's simulations--the same observations great astronomers made over the centuries to carve out our present understanding of the universe. The workbook also includes study questions, topics for further reading, and detailed instructions for using RedShift? College Edition. This workbook is automatically bundled with the two CD-set of RedShift? College Edition. Answers to the workbook exercises are available on a password-protected site for instructors only.

Table of Contents

The Launching Pad.

Lift-Off!

And Now--Heeeere's RedShift!

""Landmarks"" in the Sky

Finding Your Way Around (In the Dark!)

Address Unknown!

Timing Is Everything!

Time Passages

Eclipses.

The Solar System

Retrograde Motion: Ptolemy vs

Copernicus

Kepler's Third Law

Galilean Merry-Go-Round

There's No Place Like Home

""Hardbodies."" 1

Fire and Brimstone

Worlds in the Clouds

Fire and Ice

The Big Tilt-A-Whirl.

Stars

The Sun

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