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Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier 2001 Update with CD-Rom and Powerweb

Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier 2001 Update with CD-Rom and Powerweb


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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 contemporary 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:
Journey's start; patterns in the sky; ancient astronomy; Renaissance astronomy; gravity and motion; light and telescopes; processes at work in the Solar System; the Earth; the Moon; Mercury and Venus; Mars; Jupiter and Saturn. the outer planets; satellites; Solar System debris; basic properties of stars; the Sun; the formation of stars and planets; the evolution of stars; white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes; binary star systems; the Milky Way; galaxies; quasars and other active galaxies; galaxy clusters and the structure of the Universe; cosmology; life in the universe. Appendix 1 Mathematical and physical constants. Appendix 2 Astronomical constants. Appendix 3 Conversion factors. Appendix 4 Orbital properties of the planets. Appendix 5 Physical properties of the planets. Appendix 6 Properties of the satellites of the planets. Appendix 7 Orbital properties of selected asteroids. Appendix 8 Orbital properties of selected comets. Appendix 9 Properties of selected meteor showers. Appendix 10 The constellations. Appendix 11 Stars nearer than four parsecs. Appendix 12 The brightest stars. Appendix 13 Known and suspected members of the local group of galaxies. Appendix 14 The brightest galaxies beyond the local group. Appendix 15 Properties of selected clusters of galaxies. Appendix 16 Logarithmic graphs. Appendix 17 Answers to odd-numbered questions.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780072432619
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1909 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0072432616
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2001
  • Binding: SA
  • Sub Title: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier 2001 Update with CD-Rom and Powerweb
  • Width: 229 mm


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