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| Preface | |
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| The Tools of Astronomy | |
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| The Celestial Sphere | |
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| The Greek Tradition | |
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| The Copernican Revolution | |
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| Positions on the Celestial Sphere | |
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| Physics and Astronomy | |
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| Celestial Mechanics | |
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| Elliptical Orbits | |
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| Newtonian Mechanics | |
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| Kepler's Laws Derived | |
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| The Virial Theorem | |
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| The Continuous Spectrum of Light | |
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| Stellar Parallax | |
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| The Magnitude Scale | |
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| The Wave Nature of Light | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| The Quantization of Energy | |
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| The Color Index | |
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| The Theory of Special Relativity | |
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| The Failure of the Galilean Transformations | |
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| The Lorentz Transformations | |
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| Time and Space in Special Relativity | |
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| Relativistic Momentum and Energy | |
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| The Interaction of Light and Matter | |
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| Spectral Lines | |
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| Photons | |
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| The Bohr Model of the Atom | |
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| Quantum Mechanics and Wave-Particle Duality | |
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| Telescopes | |
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| Basic Optics | |
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| Optical Telescopes | |
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| Radio Telescopes | |
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| Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy | |
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| All-Sky Surveys and Virtual Observatories | |
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| The Nature of Stars | |
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| Binary Systems and Stellar Parameters | |
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| The Classification of Binary Stars | |
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| Mass Determination Using Visual Binaries | |
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| Eclipsing, Spectroscopic Binaries | |
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| The Search for Extrasolar Planets | |
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| The Classification of Stellar Spectra | |
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| The Formation of Spectral Lines | |
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| The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram | |
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| Stellar Atmospheres | |
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| The Description of the Radiation Field | |
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| Stellar Opacity | |
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| Radiative Transfer | |
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| The Transfer Equation | |
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| The Profiles of Spectral Lines | |
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| The Interiors of Stars | |
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| Hydrostatic Equilibrium | |
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| Pressure Equation of State | |
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| Stellar Energy Sources | |
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| Energy Transport and Thermodynamics | |
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| Stellar Model Building | |
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| The Main Sequence | |
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| The Sun | |
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| The Solar Interior | |
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| The Solar Atmosphere | |
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| The Solar Cycle | |
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| The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation | |
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| Interstellar Dust and Gas | |
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| The Formation of Protostars | |
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| Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution | |
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| Main Sequence and Post-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution | |
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| Evolution on the Main Sequence | |
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| Late Stages of Stellar Evolution | |
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| Stellar Clusters | |
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| Stellar Pulsation | |
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| Observations of Pulsating Stars | |
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| The Physics of Stellar Pulsation | |
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| Modeling Stellar Pulsation | |
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| Nonradial Stellar Pulsation | |
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| Helioseismology and Asteroseismology | |
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| The Fate of Massive Stars | |
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| Post-Main-Sequence Evolution of Massive Stars | |
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| The Classification of Supernovae | |
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| Core-Collapse Supernovae | |
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| Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
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| Cosmic Rays | |
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| The Degenerate Remnants of Stars | |
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| The Discovery of Sirius B | |
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| White Dwarfs | |
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| The Physics of Degenerate Matter | |
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| The Chandrasekhar Limit | |
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| The Cooling of White Dwarfs | |
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| Neutron Stars | |
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| Pulsars | |
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| General Relativity and Black Holes | |
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| The General Theory of Relativity | |
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| Intervals and Geodesics | |
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| Black Holes | |
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| Close Binary Star Systems | |
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| Gravity in a Close Binary Star System | |
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| Accretion Disks | |
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| A Survey of Interacting Binary Systems | |
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| White Dwarfs in Semidetached Binaries | |
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| Type Ia Supernovae | |
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| Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binaries | |
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| The Solar System | |
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| Physical Processes in the Solar System | |
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| A Brief Survey | |
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| Tidal Forces | |
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| The Physics of Atmospheres | |
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| The Terrestrial Planets | |
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| Mercury | |
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| Venus | |
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| Earth | |
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| The Moon | |
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| Mars | |
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| The Realms of the Giant Planets | |
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| The Giant Worlds | |
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| The Moons of the Giants | |
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| Planetary Ring Systems | |
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| Minor Bodies of the Solar System | |
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| Pluto and Charon | |
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| Comets and Kuiper Belt Objects | |
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| Asteroids | |
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| Meteorites | |
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| Formation of Planetary Systems | |
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| Characteristics of Extrasolar Planetary Systems | |
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| Planetary System Formation and Evolution | |
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| Galaxies and the Universe | |
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| The Milky Way Galaxy | |
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| Counting the Stars in the Sky | |
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| The Morphology of the Galaxy | |
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| The Kinematics of the Milky Way | |
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| The Galactic Center | |
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| The Nature of Galaxies | |
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| The Hubble Sequence | |
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| Spiral and Irregular Galaxies | |
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| Spiral Structure | |
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| Elliptical Galaxies | |
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| Galactic Evolution | |
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| Interactions of Galaxies | |
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| The Formation of Galaxies | |
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| The Structure of the Universe | |
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| The Extragalactic Distance Scale | |
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| The Expansion of the Universe | |
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| Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Active Galaxies | |
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| Observations of Active Galaxies | |
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| A Unified Model of Active Galactic Nuclei | |
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| Radio Lobes and Jets | |
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| Using Quasars to Probe the Universe | |
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| Cosmology | |
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| Newtonian Cosmology | |
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| The Cosmic Microwave Background | |
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| Relativistic Cosmology | |
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| Observational Cosmology | |
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| The Early Universe | |
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| The Very Early Universe and Inflation | |
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| The Origin of Structure | |
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| Astronomical and Physical Constants | |
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| Unit Conversions | |
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| Solar System Data | |
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| The Constellations | |
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| The Brightest Stars | |
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| The Nearest Stars | |
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| Stellar Data | |
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| The Messier Catalog | |
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| Constants, A Programming Module | |
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| Orbit, A Planetary Orbit Code | |
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| TwoStars, A Binary Star Code | |
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| StatStar, A Stellar Structure Code | |
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| Galaxy, A Tidal Interaction Code | |
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| WMAP Data | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |