Astronomy

Journey to the Cosmic Frontier

John D. Fix (Autor)

Media-Kombination

2003 | 3rd Revised edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
978-0-07-283302-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Provides a background in astronomy to help students follow developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book emphasizes the historical development of astronomy to show that astronomy advances through the efforts of many scientists. It also shows how ideas have been developed.

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This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough background in astronomy so that the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.

Inhalt

1 The Journey Begins1 Journey's Start2 Patterns in the Sky3 Ancient Astronomy4 Renaissance Astronomy 5 Gravity and Motion6 Light and Telescopes2 Journey Through the Solar System7 Overview of the Solar System8 The Earth9 The Moon 10 Mercury and Venus11 Mars12 Jupiter and Saturn 13 The Outer Planets14 Satellites15 Solar System Debris3 Journey to the Stars16 Basic Properties of Stars17 The Sun18 The Formation of Stars and Planets19 The Evolution of Stars20 White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes21 Binary Star Systems4 Journey to the Cosmic Frontier22 The Milky Way23 Galaxies24 Quasars and Other Active Galaxies 25 Galaxy Clusters and the Structure of the Universe26 Cosmology5 The Journey in Search of Life27 Life in the UniverseAppendixes1 Mathematical and Physical Constants2 Astronomical Constants3 Conversion Factors4 Orbital Properties of the Planets5 Physical Properties of the Planets6 Properties of the Satellites of the Planets7 Orbital Properties of Selected Asteroids8 Orbital Properties of Selected Comets9 Properties of Selected Meteor Showers10 The Constellations11 Stars Nearer Than Four Parsecs12 The Brightest Stars13 Known and Suspected Members of the Local Group of Galaxies14 The Brightest Galaxies Beyond the Local Group15 Properties of Selected Clusters of Galaxies16 Logarithmic Graphs17 Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2003
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 236 x 284 mm
• Gewicht: 1905 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-07-283302-5 / 0072833025
• ISBN-13: 978-0-07-283302-7 / 9780072833027
• Zustand: Neuware