Discovering the Essential Universe

Neil F. Comins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2014 | 6th ed. 2015
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4641-8170-2 (ISBN)

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Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.

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1. Discovering the Night Sky
2. Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
3. Light and Telescopes
4. Formation of the Solar System
5. Exoplanets
6. The Terrestrial Planets and Their Moons
7. The Outer Planets and their Moons
8. Vagabonds of the Solar System
9. The Sun. Our Extraordinary, Ordinary Star
10. Characterizing Stars
11. The Lives of Stars from Birth Through Middle Age
12. The Deaths and Remnants of Stars
13. The Galaxies
14. Cosmology
15. Astrobiology

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.7.2021
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 200 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-4641-8170-5 / 1464181705
ISBN-13	978-1-4641-8170-2 / 9781464181702
Zustand	Neuware