Explorations: Introduction to Astronomy - Brossura

Arny, Thomas; Schneider, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0070172757 ISBN 13: 9780070172753

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Riassunto

Arny: Explorations-An Introduction to Astronomy, 6th edition, is built on the foundation of its well known writing style, accuracy, and emphasis on current information. This new edition continues to offer the most complete technology/new media support package available. That technology/new media package includes: Interactives, Animations, and introducing Connect - online homework and course management.

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L'autore:

Tom Arny is an Emeritus professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was associated there with the Five College Astronomy Program(comprising faculty from U-Mass, Amhurst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges). Dr. Arny received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona. In addition to his interest in astronomy, he has a long-standing fascination with the natural world: weather (especially atmospheric optics such as rainbows), birds, wildflowers, and butterflies.

Contenuti:

Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy, 6e

Preface

Preview: The Cosmic Landscape

1 The Cycles of the Sky

Essay 1 Backyard Astronomy

2 The Rise of Astronomy

3 Gravity and Motion

4 Light and Atoms

5 Telescopes

Essay 2 Special and General Relativity

6 The Earth

Essay 3 Keeping Time

7 The Moon

8 Survey of the Solar System

9 The Terrestrial Planets

10 The Outer Planets

11 Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets

12 The Sun, Our Star

13 Measuring the Properties of Stars

14 Stellar Evolution

15 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

16 The Milky Way Galaxy

17 Galaxies

18 Cosmology

Essay 4 Life in the Universe

Essay 5 Space Travel and Special Relativity

Answers to "Test Yourself"

Appendix

Glossary

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0070172757
• ISBN 13: 9780070172753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 384