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9780534374105

Student Companion with 1-Term Passcode for Stars and Galaxies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780534374105

  • ISBN10:

    0534374107

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-08
  • Publisher: Brooks Cole

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Summary

ONLINE JOURNEY THROUGHâ,¢ ASTRONOMY is a complete online introductory astronomy course with a student companion workbook. It is available in four configurations: a complete two-term course, a brief course, a solar system course, and a stars and galaxies course. It is intended as a stand-alone product, but can be bundled with any Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning introductory astronomy book. ONLINE JOURNEY THROUGHâ,¢ ASTRONOMY modules contain text supported by images and more than 400 interactive animations and simulations, links to other web sites, objectives, graded exercises, quizzes with immediate feedback, additional exercises, critical-thinking exercises, problems, glossary, index, and astronomical calculators.The Student Companion is available to accompany any of the courses. A complete Instructor's Implementation Guide provides chapters that describe how to create and manage an online course, sample syllabi, chapter objectives, and teaching tips for specific topics by chapter. It also gives navigation detials and technical requirements.

Table of Contents

User's Guide
Introduction
1(2)
Getting Started
3(4)
The Navigation System
7(4)
Special Navigation Features
11(80)
Student Companion
The Sun
15(4)
Ordinary Stars
19(10)
Multiple Stars and Star Clusters
29(8)
Star Birth and the Main Sequence
37(6)
Star Death
43(8)
Conceptual Map 4: Stellar Evolution
49(2)
Neutron Stars and Black Holes
51(4)
The Milky Way
55(4)
Galaxies
59(12)
Conceptual Map 5: The Cosmic Distance Ladder
67(4)
Active Galaxies and Quasars
71(4)
Cosmology
75(4)
The Early Universe
79(8)
Conceptual Map 6: Look-Back Time
83(4)
Life in the Universe
87(4)
Appendix: Solutions to Exercises 91

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