The Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
978-0-321-50568-2 (ISBN)
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This edition features optional quantitative reasoning boxes, basic equations throughout the text, new end-of-chapter problems, and a consolidated math appendix for professors who want to emphasize quantitative understanding in their course. Key figures have been annotated to guide student interpretation of difficult concepts. New two-page Cosmic Context illustrations throughout the text, visually tie together key concepts from across chapters and put them in context, driving home main ideas in a meaningful way.
The Essential Cosmic Perspective,Fourth Edition Media Update provides an unprecedented media package. MasteringAstronomy™, the most easy-to-use, yet sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides both instructor-assigned homework as well as a self-study area with Bennett's popular Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Photos™, quizzes and more. An updated Essential Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images in the text for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos™ based on figures from the book, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. The Astronomy Media Workbook, Fifth Edition is now updated to correlate with MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager: SkyGazer v3.7 planetarium software.
Part 1: Developing Perspective
Chapter 1: Our Place in the Universe
Chapter 2: Discovering the Universe for Yourself
Chapter 3: The Science of Astronomy
Part 2: Key Concepts for Astronomy
Chapter 4: Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
Chapter 5: Light: The Cosmic Messenger
Part 3: Learning from Other Worlds
Chapter 6: Formation of Planetary Systems: Our Solar System and Beyond
Chapter 7: Earth and the Terrestrial Worlds
Chapter 8: Jovian Planet System
Chapter 9: Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts
Part 4: Stars
Chapter 10: Our Star
Chapter 11: Surveying the Stars
Chapter 12: Star Stuff
Chapter 13: The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
Part 5: Galaxies and Beyond
Chapter 14: Our Galaxy
Chapter 15: Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology
Chapter 16: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
Chapter 17: The Beginning of Time
Part 6: Life on Earth and Beyond
Chapter 18: Life in the Universe
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2008 |
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| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 281 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 2406 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-321-50568-9 / 0321505689 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-321-50568-2 / 9780321505682 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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