Test Bank for 21st Century Astronomy, Fifth Edition

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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393603326
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393603323
  • Author:   Laura Kay (Author), Stacy Palen (Author), George Blumenthal (Author)

A textbook that facilitates learning by doing.

Influenced by astronomy education research, 21st Century Astronomy offers a complete pedagogical and media package that facilitates learning by doing, while the new one-column design makes the Fifth Edition the most accessible introductory text available today.

Table of content:

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

8.  The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon

9.  Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets

10.  Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets

11.  Planetary Moons and Rings

12.  Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies

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