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  • Pathways to Astronomy with Starry Nights Pro CD-ROM (v.3.1)

    Pathways to Astronomy with Starry Nights Pro CD-ROM (v.3.1) by Arny, Thomas T;

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    • Publisher McGraw-Hill Higher Education
    • Date of Publication 1 April 2006

    • ISBN 9780072922080
    • Binding Unidentified
    • No. of pages416 pages
    • Size 276x210x25 mm
    • Weight 1590 g
    • Language English
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    Pathways to Astronomy is designed more like a series of mini-lectures instead of a monograph of the entire field of astronomy. The same material covered in other introductory astronomy texts is included, but this is broken up into smaller self-contained 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 offers the most complete technology media support package available. That technology media package includes: Starry Night Planetarium Software free with the purchase of every new text; ARIS (text web site providing a complete online tutorial, electronic homework, and course management system); 23 Interactives (on the text web site and Digital Content Manager CD); Animations (on the text web site). Electronic Media Integration has been incorporated throughout the text by the use of icons to indicate where additional understanding can be gained through an animation or interactive.

    Pathways to Astronomy is designed more like a series of mini-lectures instead of a monograph of the entire field of astronomy. The same material covered in other introductory astronomy texts is included, but this is broken up into smaller self-contained 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 offers the most complete technology media support package available. That technology media package includes: Starry Night Planetarium Software free with the purchase of every new text; ARIS (text web site providing a complete online tutorial, electronic homework, and course management system); 23 Interactives (on the text web site and Digital Content Manager CD); Animations (on the text web site). Electronic Media Integration has been incorporated throughout the text by the use of icons to indicate where additional understanding can be gained through an animation or interactive.

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    Table of Contents:

    THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE

    1 Our Planetary Neighborhood

    2 Beyond the Solar System

    3 Astronomical Numbers

    4 Foundations of Astronomy

    5 The Night Sky

    6 The Year

    7 The Time of Day

    8 Lunar Cycles

    9 Calendars

    10 Geometry of the Earth, Sun and Moon

    11 Planets: The Wandering Stars

    12 The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy

    13 Observing the Sky

    PROBING MATTER,LIGHT, AND THEIR INTERACTION

    14 Astronomical Motion: Inertis, Mass, and Force

    15 Force, Accerleration, and Interaction

    16 The Universal Law of Gravity

    17 Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion

    18 Orbital and Escape Velocity

    19 Tides

    20 Conservation Laws

    21 Light, Matter, and Energy

    22 The Electromagnetic Spectrum

    23 Thermal Radiation

    24 Atomic Spectra: Identifying Atoms by Their Light

    25 The Doppler Shift

    26 Detecting Light

    27 Collecting Light

    28 Focusing Light

    29 Telescope Resolution

    30 The Earth's Atmosphere and Space Observatories

    31 Amateur Astonomy

    THE SOLAR SYSTEM

    32 The Structure of the Solar System

    33 The Origin of the Solar System

    34 Other Planetary Systems

    35 The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet

    36 Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

    37 Our Moon

    38 Mercury

    39 Venus

    40 Mars

    41 Asteroids

    42 Comparative Planetology

    43 Jupiter and Saturn

    44 Uranus and Neptune

    45 Satellite Systems and Rings

    46 Ice Worlds: Pluto, and Beyond

    47 Comets

    48 Impacts on Earth

    STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION

    49 The Sun, Our Star

    50 The Sun's Source of Power

    51 Solar Activity

    52 Surveying the Stars

    53 Special Relativity

    54 Light and Distance

    55 The Composition and Temperatures of Stars

    56 The Masses of Orbiting Stars

    57 The Sizes of Stars

    58 The H-R Diagram

    59 Stellar Evolution

    60 Star Formation

    61 Main-Sequence Stars

    62 Giant Stars

    63 Variable Stars

    64 Mass Loss and Death of Low Mass Stars

    65 Exploding White Dwarfs

    66 Old Age and Death of Massive Stars

    67 Neutron Stars

    68 Black Holes

    69 Star Clusters

    GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE

    70 Discovering the Milky Way

    71 Stars of the Milky Way

    72 Gas and Dust in the Milky Way

    73 Mass and Motions in the Milky Way

    74 A Universe of Galaxies

    75 Types of Galaxies

    76 Galaxy Clustering

    77 Active Galaxies

    78 Dark Matter

    79 Cosmology

    80 The Edges of the Universe

    81 The Beginnings of the Universe

    82 The Fate of the Universe

    83 Astrobiology

    84 The Search for Life Elsewhere

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