21st Century Astronomy, 3/e (Paperback)
Jeff Hester, Bradford Smith, George Blumenthal, Laura Kay, Howard Voss
- 出版商: W.W.Norton
- 出版日期: 2010-01-11
- 售價: $1,280
- 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $1,254
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 651
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 0393931986
- ISBN-13: 9780393931983
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With 21st Century Astronomy, students see the universe through the eyes of a scientist.
21st Century Astronomy’s distinctive writing style, superior art, and supporting media package all work together to teach students how science works, help students visualize basic concepts and physical processes, and keep students focused on the “big picture.”
For the Third Edition, the entire text has been reread from a student’s perspective and rewritten to eliminate jargon and ensure that the book’s hallmark tone resounds throughout every chapter. New Visual Analogy icons help students connect the textual analogies used to describe physical processes with the figures that illustrate them, and new AstroTour animations and simulations developed at the University of Nebraska provide students with opportunities for interactive learning.
Table Of Contents
Part I: Introduction to Astronomy
Chapter 1: Why Learn Astronomy?
Chapter 2: Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth
Chapter 3: Gravity and Orbits—A Celestial Ballet
Chapter 4: Light
Chapter 5: The Tools of the Astronomer
Part II: The Solar System
Chapter 6: The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems
Chapter 7: The Terrestrial Planets and Earth's Moon
Chapter 8: Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
Chapter 9: Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets
Chapter 10: Gravity Is More Than Kepler's Laws
Chapter 11: Planetary Adornments—Moons and Rings
Chapter 12: Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
Part III: Stars and Stellar Evolution
Chapter 13: Taking the Measure Of Stars
Chapter 14: A Run-of-the-Mill G Type Star—Our Sun
Chapter 15: Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
Chapter 16: Stars in the Slow Lane: Low-Mass Stellar Evolution
Chapter 17: Live Fast, Die Young: High Mass Stellar Evolution
Part IV: Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology
Chapter 18: Our Expanding Universe
Chapter 19: Galaxies
Chapter 20: The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy
Chapter 21: Modern Cosmology
Chapter 22: Structure in the Universe
Chapter 23: Life
