(eBook PDF) 21st Century Astronomy (Sixth Edition) 6th Edition

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product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393675564
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393675566
• Author: Laura Kay (Author), Stacy Palen (Author), George Blumenthal (Author)

Informed by astronomy education research, the Sixth Edition reflects an emphasis on learning by doing. This emphasis is reinforced through thoughtful pedagogy and an innovative teaching and learning package. Students get to interact with astronomy while instructors receive the resources they need to incorporate active learning into the classroom.

table of contents:

1. Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Astronomer
2. Chapter 2: Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth and the Moon
3. Chapter 3: Motion of Astronomical Bodies
4. Chapter 4: Gravity
5. Chapter 5: Light
6. Chapter 6: The Tools of the Astronomer
7. Chapter 7: The Formation of Planetary Systems
8. Chapter 8: The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon
9. Chapter 9: Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
10. Chapter 10: Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets
11. Chapter 11: Planetary Moons and Rings
12. Chapter 12: Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
13. Chapter 13: Taking the Measure of Stars
14. Chapter 14: Our Star — The Sun
15. Chapter 15: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
16. Chapter 16: Evolution of Low-Mass Stars
17. Chapter 17: Evolution of High-Mass Stars
18. Chapter 18: Relativity and Black Holes
19. Chapter 19: Galaxies
20. Chapter 20: The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy
21. Chapter 21: The Expanding Universe
22. Chapter 22: Cosmology
23. Chapter 23: Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
24. Chapter 24: Life

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