(eBook PDF) 21st Century Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies (Sixth Edition) 6th Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393675548
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393675542
• Author: Laura Kay, Stacy Palen, George Blumenthal

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:

PART I.  INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY 

1.  Thinking Like an Astronomer

2.  Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth and the Moon

3.  Motion of Astronomical Bodies

4.  Gravity

5.  Light

6.  The Tools of the Astronomer

PART II.  THE SOLAR SYSTEM 

7.  The Formation of Planetary Systems

PART III.  STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION 

13.  Taking the Measure of Stars

14.  Our Star: The Sun

15.  The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation

16.  Evolution of Low-Mass Stars

17.  Evolution of High-Mass Stars

18.  Relativity and Black Holes

PART IV.  GALAXIES, THE UNIVERSE, AND COSMOLOGY 

19.  Galaxies

20.  The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy

21.  The Expanding Universe

22.  Cosmology

23.  Large-Scale Structure in the Universe

24.  Life

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