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Essential Cosmic Perspective
ISBN: 9780201697346 | 0201697343
Edition: BRIEFFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000
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This accessible, student-friendly text offers a fresh approach to teaching introductory astronomy, emphasizing the "big picture" of the universe emerging from the flood of discoveries during the last two decades. The authors engage students' curiosity by linking the new insights and discoveries to themes of human achievement, physics in the universe, continuity of matter, the dynamic systems that sustain life, and astronomy and physics as foundations for our world view. Throughout, the emphasis is on important ideas, with relevant details, techniques, and formulas presented after concepts.
| Preface | ix | ||||
| How to Succeed in Your Astronomy Course | xiii | ||||
| About the Authors | xvi | ||||
| About the Artist | xviii | ||||
| PART I DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE | 1 | (50) | |||
| 3 | (24) | ||||
| 27 | (24) | |||
| PART II KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY | 51 | (68) | |||
| 53 | (16) | |||
| 69 | (12) | |||
| 81 | (16) | |||
| 97 | (22) | |||
| PART III LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS | 119 | (118) | |||
| 121 | (18) | |||
| 139 | (31) | |||
| 170 | (25) | |||
| 195 | (20) | |||
| 215 | (22) | |||
| PART IV STELLAR ALCHEMY | 237 | (70) | |||
| 239 | (15) | |||
| 254 | (16) | |||
| 270 | (22) | |||
| 292 | (15) | |||
| PART V GALAXIES AND BEYOND | 307 | ||||
| 309 | (18) | |||
| 327 | (30) | |||
| 357 | (14) | |||
| 371 | (17) | |||
| 388 | ||||
| APPENDICES | |||||
| A-1 | (1) | |||
| A-8 | (1) | |||
| A-9 | (1) | |||
| A-12 | (1) | |||
| S-1 | (1) | |||
| Glossary | G-1 | (1) | |||
| Acknowledgments | C-1 | (1) | |||
| Index | I-1 |
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