(eBook PDF) 21st Century Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies (Sixth Edition) 6th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0393920577
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393920574
- Author:
Authors Laura Kay and Stacy Palen have developed pedagogy that helps students understand the process of science, and how physical principles are used to discover the origins of the universe. The authors emphasize how we know what we know in the figures, text, and end-of-chapter material.
Table 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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