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    Product details:

    • Edition number 4
    • Publisher McGraw-Hill
    • Date of Publication 16 February 2014

    • ISBN 9780073512242
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages800 pages
    • Size 307x177x33 mm
    • Weight 1397 g
    • Language English
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    Pathways to Astronomy breaks down introductory astronomy into its component parts. The huge and fascinating field of astronomy is divided into 86 units. These units are woven together to flow naturally for the person who wants to read the text like a book, but it is also possible to assign them in different orders, or skip certain units altogether. Professors can customize the units to fit their course needs. They can select individual units for exploration in lecture while assigning easier units for self-study, or they can cover all the units in full depth in a content-rich course. With the short length of units, students can easily digest the material covered in an individual unit before moving onto the next unit.

    Pathways to Astronomy breaks down introductory astronomy into its component parts. The huge and fascinating field of astronomy is divided into 86 units. These units are woven together to flow naturally for the person who wants to read the text like a book, but it is also possible to assign them in different orders, or skip certain units altogether. Professors can customize the units to fit their course needs. They can select individual units for exploration in lecture while assigning easier units for self-study, or they can cover all the units in full depth in a content-rich course. With the short length of units, students can easily digest the material covered in an individual unit before moving onto the next unit.

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    Table of Contents:

    Looking Up Illustrations

    Preface

    PART I THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE

    Unit 1 Our Planetary Neighborhood

    Unit 2 Beyond the Solar System

    Unit 3 Astronomical Numbers

    Unit 4 Foundations of Astronomy

    Unit 5 The Night Sky

    Unit 6 The Year

    Unit 7 The Time of Day

    Unit 8 Lunar Cycles

    Unit 9 Calendars

    Unit 10 Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

    Unit 11 Planets: The Wandering Stars

    Unit 12 The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy

    Unit 13 Observing the Sky

    PART II PROBING MATTER, LIGHT, AND THEIR INTERACTIONS

    Unit 14 Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force

    Unit 15 Force, Acceleration, and Interaction

    Unit 16 The Universal Law of Gravity

    Unit 17 Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion

    Unit 18 Orbital and Escape Velocities

    Unit 19 Tides

    Unit 20 Conservation Laws

    Unit 21 The Dual Nature of Light and Matter

    Unit 22 The Electromagnetic Spectrum

    Unit 23 Thermal Radiation

    Unit 24 Identifying Atoms by Their Spectra

    Unit 25 The Doppler Shift

    Unit 26 Special Relativity

    Unit 27 General Relativity

    Unit 28 Detecting Light

    Unit 29 Collecting Light

    Unit 30 Focusing Light

    Unit 31 Telescope Resolution

    Unit 32 The Earth's Atmosphere and SpaceObservatories

    Unit 33 Amateur Astronomy

    PART III THE SOLAR SYSTEM

    Unit 34 The Structure of the Solar System

    Unit 35 The Origin of the Solar System

    Unit 36 Other Planetary Systems

    Unit 37 The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet

    Unit 38 Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

    Unit 39 Our Moon

    Unit 40 Mercury

    Unit 41 Venus

    Unit 42 Mars

    Unit 43 Asteroids

    Unit 44 Comparative Planetology

    Unit 45 Jupiter and Saturn

    Unit 46 Uranus and Neptune

    Unit 47 Satellite Systems and Rings

    Unit 48 Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond

    Unit 49 Comets

    Unit 50 Impacts on Earth

    PART IV STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION

    Unit 51 The Sun, Our Star

    Unit 52 The Sun's Source of Power

    Unit 53 Solar Activity

    Unit 54 Surveying the Stars

    Unit 55 The Luminosities of Stars

    Unit 56 The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars

    Unit 57 The Masses of Orbiting Stars

    Unit 58 The Sizes of Stars

    Unit 59 The H-R Diagram

    Unit 60 Overview of Stellar Evolution

    Unit 61 Star Formation

    Unit 62 Main-Sequence Stars

    Unit 63 Giant Stars

    Unit 64 Variable Stars

    Unit 65 Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars

    Unit 66 Exploding White Dwarfs

    Unit 67 Old Age and Death of Massive Stars

    Unit 68 Neutron Stars

    Unit 69 Black Holes

    Unit 70 Star Clusters

    PART V GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE

    Unit 71 Discovering the Milky Way

    Unit 72 Stars of the Milky Way

    Unit 73 Gas and Dust in the Milky Way

    Unit 74 Mass and Motions in the Milky Way

    Unit 75 A Universe of Galaxies

    Unit 76 Types of Galaxies

    Unit 77 Galaxy Clustering

    Unit 78 Active Galactic Nuclei

    Unit 79 Dark Matter

    Unit 80 Cosmology

    Unit 81 The Edges of the Universe

    Unit 82 The Curvature of the Universe

    Unit 83 The Beginnings of the Universe

    Unit 84 Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe

    Unit 85 Astrobiology

    Unit 86 The Search for Life Elsewhere

    Answers to Test Yourself Questions

    Glossary

    Credits

    Index

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