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Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology, Fifth Edition includes an enhanced art program. This student-friendly text is now even more accessible through robust visual pedagogy via new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations, which walk students through key processes and summarize the major points of each Part, and via updated zoom-in figures which provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to an enhanced art program, the text also features new See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new subset of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.     The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology, Fifth Edition, includes the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built: MasteringAstronomyTM It provides both instructor-assigned homework and a self-study area containing our popular astronomy media that includes Interactive TutorialsTM, Interactive Figures and PhotosTM , quizzes, and more. The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. This unparalleled media package is designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

Table of Contents:
PART I DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE   1 Our Place in the Universe   1.1 Our Modern View of the Universe   1.2 The Scale of the Universe   1.3 Spaceship Earth   1.4 The Human Adventure of Astronomy   2 Discovering the Universe for Yourself   2.1 Patterns in the Night Sky   2.2 The Reason for Seasons   2.3 The Moon, Our Constant Companion   2.4 The Ancient Mystery of the Planets   3 The Science of Astronomy   3.1 The Ancient Roots of Science   3.2 Ancient Greek Science   3.3 The Copernican Revolution   3.4 The Nature of Science   3.5 Astrology   S1 Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation   S1.1 Astronomical Time Periods   S1.2 Celestial Coordinates and Motion in the Sky   S1.3 Principles of Celestial Navigation   PART II KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY   4 Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity   4.1 Describing Motion: Examples from Daily Life   4.2 Newton’s Laws of Motion   4.3 Conservation Laws in Astronomy   4.4 The Universal Law of Gravitation   4.5 Orbits, Tides, and the Acceleration of Gravity   5 Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos   5.1 Light in Everyday Life   5.2 Properties of Light   5.3 Properties of Matter   5.4 Learning from Light   5.5 The Doppler Shift   6 Telescopes: Portals of Discovery   6.1 Eyes and Cameras: Everyday Light Sensors   6.2 Telescopes: Giant Eyes   6.3 Telescopes and the Atmosphere   6.4 Telescopes and Technology     PART IV A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE   S2 Space and Time   S2.1 Einstein’s Revolution   S2.2 Relative Motion   S2.3 The Reality of Space and Time   S2.4 Toward a New Common Sense   S3 Spacetime and Gravity   S3.1 Einstein’s Second Revolution   S3.2 Understanding Spacetime   S3.3 A New View of Gravity   S3.4 Testing Special Relativity   S3.5 Hyperspace, Wormholes, and Warp Drive   S3.6 The Last Word   S4 Building Blocks of the Universe   S4.1 The Quantum Revolution   S4.2 Fundamental Particles and Forces   S4.3 Uncertainty and Exclusion in the Quantum Realm   S4.4 Key Quantum Effects in Astronomy   PART V STELLAR ALCHEMY   14 Our Star   14.1 A Closer Look at the Sun   14.2 The Cosmic Crucible   14.3 The Sun-Earth Connection   15 Surveying the Stars   15.1 Properties of Stars   15.2 Classifying Stars   15.3 Star Clusters   16 Star Birth   16.1 Stellar Nurseries   16.2 Stages of Star Birth   16.3 Masses of Newborn Stars   17 Star Stuff   17.1 Lives in the Balance   17.2 Life as a Low-Mass Star   17.3 Life as a High-Mass Star   17.4 The Roles of Mass and Mass Exchange   18 The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard   18.1 White Dwarfs   18.2 Neutron Stars   18.3 Black Holes: Gravity’s Ultimate Victory   18.4 The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts   PART VI GALAXIES AND BEYOND   19 Our Galaxy   19.1 The Milky Way Revealed   19.2 Galactic Recycling   19.3 History of the Milky Way   19.4 The Mysterious Galactic Center   20 Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology   20.1 Islands of Stars   20.2 Distances of Galaxies   20.3 Hubble's Law   21 Galaxy Evolution   21.1 Looking Back Through Time   21.2 The Lives of Galaxies   21.3 Quasars and Other Active Galactic Nuclei   22 Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe   22.1 Unseen Influences in the Cosmos   22.2 Evidence for Dark Matter   22.3 Structure Formation   22.4 The Fate of the Universe   23 The Beginning of Time   23.1 The Big Bang   23.2 Evidence for the Big Bang   23.3 The Big Bang and Inflation   23.4 Observing the Big Bang for Yourself   PART VI LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND   24 Life in the Universe   24.1 Life on Earth   24.2 Life in the Solar System   24.3 Life Around other Stars   24.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence   24.5 Interstellar Travel and Its Implications to Civilization  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321503190
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
  • Height: 276 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Weight: 1388 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0321503198
  • Publisher Date: 18 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology
  • Width: 216 mm


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