The Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy and Skygazer Planetarium Software
Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
978-0-8053-9269-2 (ISBN)
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The Fourth Edition of The Cosmic Perspective builds on the textbook's long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation.
Renowned for its up-to-date and expert coverage, this student-friendly text focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. The Fourth Edition features a new straightforward learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, and chapter summaries to make learning goals more explicit and to tie together important concepts. The comprehensive media package has been expanded to help students and professors seamlessly integrate the text's superior media into their classroom presentations, homework, and test review. New interactive figures and interactive photos for each chapter help students visualize complex astronomical concepts and an expanded Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM features even more material for instructors to incorporate into their lectures.
Jeffrey Bennett received a B.A. in biophysics from the University of California, San Diego (1981) and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1987). He currently spends most of his time as a teacher, speaker, and writer. He has taught extensively at all levels, including having founded and run a science summer school for elementary and middle school children. At the college level, he has taught more than fifty classes in subjects ranging from astronomy, physics, and mathematics, to education. He served two years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he helped create numerous programs for science education. He also proposed the idea for and helped develop the Voyage Scale Model Solar System, which opened in 2001 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In addition to The Cosmic Perspective, he has written college-level textbooks in astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics, and a book for the general public, On the Cosmic Horizon (Addison-Wesley, 2001). He also recently completed his first children's book, Max Goes to the Moon (Big Kid Science, 2003). When not working, he enjoys participating in masters swimming and in the daily adventures of life with his wife, Lisa, his children Grant and Brooke, and his dog, Max. Megan Donahue is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Michigan State University. Her current research is mainly on clusters of galaxies: their contents—dark matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei—and what they reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray astronomer. She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, for a thesis on theory and optical observations of intergalactic and intracluster gas. That thesis won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued post-doctoral research in optical and X-ray observations as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScl Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, when she joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, who is also a frequent collaborator of hers on many projects, including The Cosmic Perspective and the raising of their three children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. Between the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the 2000 Boston Marathon. She hopes to run another one soon. Nicholas M. Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A. in physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991, he received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests include planetary atmospheres and planetary astronomy, with a focus on the odd case of Jupiter's moon Io. He enjoys teaching at all levels and is active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. Off the job, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and figuring out how things work. Mark Voit is an associate professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He earned his A.B. in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow. Before coming to Michigan State, Mark worked in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and was the scientist behind NASA's HubbleSite. His research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe. He is married to co-author Megan Donahue, and they try to play outdoors with their three children whenever possible, enjoying hiking, camping, running, and orienteering. Mark is also author of the popular book Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.
PART I
DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE
1 Our Place in the Universe
1.1 Our Modern View of the Universe
1.2 The Scale of the Universe
1.3 Spaceship Earth
2 Discovering the Universe for Yourself
2.1 Patterns in the Night Sky
2.2 The Reason for Seasons
2.3 The Moon, Our Constant Companion
2.4 The Ancient Mystery of the Planets
3 The Science of Astronomy
3.1 The Ancient Roots of Science
3.2 Ancient Greek Science
3.3 The Copernican Revolution
3.4 The Nature of Science
3.5 Astrology
S1 Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation
S1.1 Astronomical Time Periods
S1.2 Celestial Coordinates and Motion in the Sky
S1.3 Principles of Celestial Navigation
PART II
KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY
4 Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
4.1 Describing Motion: Examples from Daily Life
4.2 Newton’s Laws of Motion
4.3 Conservation Laws in Astronomy
4.4 The Universal Law of Gravitation
4.5 Orbits, Tides, and the Acceleration of Gravity
5 Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos
5.1 Light in Everyday Life
5.2 Properties of Light
5.3 Properties of Matter
5.4 Learning from Light
5.5 The Doppler Shift
6 Telescopes: Portals of Discovery
6.1 Eyes and Cameras: Everyday Light Sensors
6.2 Telescopes: Giant Eyes
6.3 Telescopes and the Atmosphere
6.4 Telescopes And Technology
PART III
LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS
7 Our Solar System
7.1 Studying the Solar System
7.2 Patterns in the Solar System
7.3 Spacecraft Exploration of the Solar System
8 Formation of the Solar System
8.1 The Search for Origins
8.2 The Birth of the Solar System
8.3 The Formation of Planets
8.4 Asteroids, Comets, and Exceptions to the Rules
8.5 The Age of the Solar System
9 Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
9.1 The connection Between Planetary Interiors and Surfaces
9.2 The Processes that Shape Planetary Surfaces
9.3 Geology of the Moon and Mercury
9.4 Geology of Mars
9.5 Geology of Venus
9.6 The Unique Geology of Earth
10 Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
10.1 Atmospheric Basics
10.2 Weather and Climate
10.3 Atmospheres of the Moon and Mercury
10.4 The Atmospheric History of Mars
10.5 The Atmospheric History of Venus
10.6 Earth’s Unique Atmosphere
11 Jovian Planet Systems
11.1 A Different Kind of Planet
11.2 A Wealth of Worlds: Satellites of Ice and Rock
11.3 Jovian Planet Rings
12 Remnants of Rock and Ice:
Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto
12.1 Asteroids and Meteorites
12.2 Comets
12.3 Pluto: Lone Dog, or Part of a Pack?
12.4 Cosmic Collisions
13 Other Planetary Systems
13.1 Detecting Planets Around Other Stars
13.2 Characteristics of Other Planetary Systems
13.3 New Insights Into Solar System Formation
PART IV
S2 Space and Time
S2.1 Einstein’s Revolution
S2.2 Relative Motion
S2.3 The Reality of Space and Time
S2.4 Testing Special Relativity
S2.5 Ticket to the Stars
S3 Spacetime and Gravity
S3.1 Einstein’s Second Revolution
S3..2 The Equivalence Principle
S3.3 Understanding Spacetime
S3.4 A New View of Gravity
S3.5 Testing Special Relativity
S3.6 Hyperspace, Wormholes, and Warp Drive
S4 Building Blocks of the Universe
S4.1 The Quantum Revolution
S4.2 Fundamental Particles and Forces
S4.3 The Uncertainty Principle
S4.4 The Exclusion Principle
S4.5 Key Quantum Effects in Astronomy
PART V
STARS
14 Our Star
14.1 A Closer Look at the Sun
14.2 Nuclear Fusion in the Sun
14.3 The Sun-Earth Connection
15 Surveying the Stars
15.1 Properties of Stars
15.2 Classifying Stars
15.3 Star Clusters
16 Star Birth
16.1 Stellar Nurseries
16.2 Stages of Star Birth
16.3 Masses of Newborn Stars
17 Star Stuff
17.1 Life as a Low-Mass Star
17.2 Life as a High-Mass Star
17.3 Binary Star Systems
18 The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
18.1 White Dwarfs
18.2 Neutron Stars
18.3 Black Holes: Gravity’s Ultimate Victory
18.4 The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
PART VI
GALAXIES AND BEYOND
19 Our Galaxy
19.1 The Milky Way Revealed
19.2 Galactic Recycling
19.3 History of the Milky Way
19.4 The Mysterious Galactic Center
20 A Universe of Galaxies
20.1 Islands of Stars
20.2 Distances of Galaxies
20.3 Ages of Galaxies
20.4 The Expanding Universe
21 Galaxy Evolution
21.1 Looking Back Through Time
21.2 Galaxy Formation
21.3 Differences Among Galaxies
21.4 Quasars and other Active Nuclei
22 Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
22.1 Unseen Influences in the Cosmos
22.2 Evidence for Dark Matter
22.3 Structure Formation
22.4 The Universe’s Fate
23 The Beginning of Time
23.1 The Big Bang
23.2 Evidence for the Big Bang
23.3 The Big Bang and Inflation
23.4 Observing the Big Bang for Yourself
PART VI
LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND
24 Life in the Universe
24.1 Life on Earth
24.2 Life in the Solar System
24.3 Life Around other Stars
24.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
24.5 Interstellar Travel and Its Implications to Civilization
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.2.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | San Francisco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1822 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8053-9269-6 / 0805392696 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8053-9269-2 / 9780805392692 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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