21st Century Astronomy The Solar System

Name: 21st Century Astronomy The Solar System
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ISBN: 9780393932843

ISBN-10: 0393932842

ISBN-13: 9780393932843

Edition: 3rd

Authors: Jeff Hester

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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 'œbig 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…

Book details

List price: $133.95
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 9.00" wide x 10.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English




Introduction to Astronomy



Why Learn Astronomy?



Patterns in the Sky-Motions of Earth



Gravity and Orbits-A Celestial Ballet



Light



The Tools of the Astronomer



The Solar System



The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems



The Terrestrial Planets and Earth's Moon



Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets



Worlds of Gas and Liquid-The Giant Planets



Gravity Is More Than Kepler's Laws



Planetary Adornments-Moons and Rings



Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies



Stars and Stellar Evolution



Taking the Measure Of Stars



A Run-of-the-Mill G Type Star-Our Sun



Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium



Stars in the Slow Lane: Low-Mass Stellar Evolution



Live Fast, Die Young: High Mass Stellar Evolution



Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology



Our Expanding Universe



Galaxies



The Milky Way-A Normal Spiral Galaxy



Modern Cosmology



Structure in the Universe



Life