Pathways to Astronomy
ISBN: 9780077401832 | 0077401832
Edition: 2ndPublisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 10/6/2009
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Pathways to Astronomybreaks down introductory astronomy into its component parts. The huge and fascinating field of astronomy is divided into 84 units. These units are woven together to flow naturally for the person who wants to read the text like a book, but it is also possible to assign them in different orders, or skip certain units altogether. Professors can customize the units to fit their course needs. They can select individual units for exploration in lecture while assigning easier units for self-study, or they can cover all the units in full depth in a content-rich course. With the short length of units, students can easily digest the material covered in an individual unit before moving onto the next unit.Pathways to Astronomyoffers the most complete technology media support package available. That technology media package includes: Starry Night Planetarium Software; ARIS (text web site providing a complete online electronic homework and course management system); 23 Interactives (on ARIS); Animations (on ARIS). Electronic Media Integration has been incorporated throughout the text by the use of icons to indicate where additional understanding can be gained through an animation or interactive.
| Preface | |
| Looking Up Illustrations | |
| The Cosmic Landscape | |
| Our Planetary Neighborhood | |
| Beyond the Solar System | |
| Astronomical Numbers | |
| Foundations of Astronomy | |
| The Night Sky | |
| The Year | |
| The Time of Day | |
| Lunar Cycles | |
| Calendars | |
| Geometry o... MORE | |
| Planets: The Wandering Stars | |
| The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy | |
| Observing the Sky | |
| Probing Matter, Light, And Their Interaction | |
| Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force | |
| Force, Acceleration, and Interaction | |
| The Universal Law of Gravity | |
| Measuring a Body’s Mass Using Orbital Motion | |
| Orbital and Escape Velocities | |
| Tides | |
| Conservation Laws | |
| Light, Matter, and Energy | |
| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
| Thermal Radiation | |
| Atomic Spectra: Identifying Atoms by Their Light | |
| The Doppler Shift | |
| Detecting Light | |
| Collecting Light | |
| Focusing Light | |
| Telescope Resolution | |
| The Earth’s Atmosphere and Space Observatories | |
| Amateur Astronomy | |
| The Solar System | |
| The Structure of the Solar System | |
| The Origin of the Solar System | |
| Other Planetary Systems | |
| The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet | |
| Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere | |
| Our Moon | |
| Mercury | |
| Venus | |
| Mars | |
| Asteroids | |
| Comparative Planetology | |
| Jupiter and Saturn | |
| Uranus and Neptune | |
| Satellite Systems and Rings | |
| Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond | |
| Comets | |
| Impacts on Earth | |
| Stars And Stellar Evolution | |
| The Sun, Our Star | |
| The Sun’s Source of Power | |
| Solar Activity | |
| Surveying the Stars | |
| Special Relativity | |
| Light and Distance | |
| The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars | |
| The Masses of Orbiting Stars | |
| The Sizes of Stars | |
| The H-R Diagram | |
| Overview of Stellar Evolution | |
| Star Formation | |
| Main-Sequence Stars | |
| Giant Stars | |
| Variable Stars | |
| Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars | |
| Exploding White Dwarfs | |
| Old Age and Death of Massive Stars | |
| Neutron Stars | |
| Black Holes | |
| Star Clusters | |
| Galaxies And The Universe | |
| Discovering the Milky Way | |
| Stars of the Milky Way | |
| Gas and Dust in the Milky Way | |
| Mass and Motions in the Milky Way | |
| A Universe of Galaxies | |
| Types of Galaxies | |
| Galaxy Clustering | |
| Active Galactic Nuclei | |
| Dark Matter | |
| Cosmology | |
| The Edges of the Universe | |
| The Beginnings of the Universe | |
| The Fate of the Universe | |
| Astrobiology | |
| The Search for Life Elsewhere | |
| Glossary | |
| Answers to Test Yourself Questions | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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