The Cosmic Perspective

Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology

Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan O. Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2008 | 5th edition
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-321-50319-0 (ISBN)

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Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology, Fifth Edition includes an enhanced art program. This student-friendly text is now even more accessible through robust visual pedagogy via new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations, which walk students through key processes and summarize the major points of each Part, and via updated zoom-in figures which provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to an enhanced art program, the text also features new See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new subset of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.

The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology, Fifth Edition, includes the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built: MasteringAstronomyTM It provides both instructor-assigned homework and a self-study area containing our popular astronomy media that includes Interactive TutorialsTM, Interactive Figures and PhotosTM , quizzes, and more. The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. This unparalleled media package is designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

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

1.4 The Human Adventure of Astronomy

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 IV A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE

S2 Space and Time

S2.1 Einstein’s Revolution

S2.2 Relative Motion

S2.3 The Reality of Space and Time

S2.4 Toward a New Common Sense

S3 Spacetime and Gravity

S3.1 Einstein’s Second Revolution

S3.2 Understanding Spacetime

S3.3 A New View of Gravity

S3.4 Testing Special Relativity

S3.5 Hyperspace, Wormholes, and Warp Drive

S3.6 The Last Word

S4 Building Blocks of the Universe

S4.1 The Quantum Revolution

S4.2 Fundamental Particles and Forces

S4.3 Uncertainty and Exclusion in the Quantum Realm

S4.4 Key Quantum Effects in Astronomy

PART V STELLAR ALCHEMY

14 Our Star

14.1 A Closer Look at the Sun

14.2 The Cosmic Crucible

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 Lives in the Balance

17.2 Life as a Low-Mass Star

17.3 Life as a High-Mass Star

17.4 The Roles of Mass and Mass Exchange

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 Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology

20.1 Islands of Stars

20.2 Distances of Galaxies

20.3 Hubble's Law

21 Galaxy Evolution

21.1 Looking Back Through Time

21.2 The Lives of Galaxies

21.3 Quasars and Other Active Galactic 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 Fate of the Universe

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	18.2.2008
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 276 mm
Gewicht	1388 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-321-50319-8 / 0321503198
ISBN-13	978-0-321-50319-0 / 9780321503190
Zustand	Neuware