Test Bank for Astronomy At Play in the Cosmos, Preliminary Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393124002
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393124002
• Author:  Adam Frank

Astronomy: At Play in the Cosmos brings popular science writing to a textbook. In every chapter, author Adam Frank―a co-writer of the NPR blog “13.7 Cosmos and Culture”―integrates two interviews with leading scientists, a fascinating second voice that drives the narrative while making astronomy feel immediate, relevant, and real for students, and still capturing science’s human nature.

 

Table of Content:

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started: Science, Astronomy, and Being Human
2. 1.1 Miles Apart and Years Between
3. 1.2 Very, Very Old and Really, Really Big
4. 1.3 The Contents and Story of the Cosmos
5. 1.4 Why Science?
6. 1.5 Science, Politics, and the Human Prospect on a Changing Planet
7. Anatomy of a Discovery
8. Chapter Summary
9. Questions and Problems
10. Chapter 2: A Universe Made, a Universe Discovered: The Night Sky and the Dawn of Astronomy
11. 2.1 An Old Obsession
12. 2.2 Dance of Night and Day: Basic Motions of the Sky
13. 2.3 Monthly Changes of the Moon
14. 2.4 Celestial Wanderers: The Motion of Planets
15. 2.5 Stone and Myth: Astronomy Begins
16. 2.6 The Greek Advancement of Science
17. Anatomy of a Discovery
18. Chapter Summary
19. Questions and Problems
20. Chapter 3: A Universe of Universal Laws: From the Copernican Revolution to Newton’s Gravity
21. 3.1 Getting Past Ptolemy: The Copernican Revolution
22. 3.2 Planets, Politics, and the Observations of Tycho Brahe
23. 3.3 Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
24. 3.4 Galileo Invents New Sciences
25. 3.5 Newton and the Universal Laws of Motion
26. Anatomy of a Discovery
27. Chapter Summary
28. Questions and Problems
29. Chapter 4: A Universe of Universal Laws: How Light, Matter, and Heat Shape the Cosmos
30. 4.1 Light: The Cosmic Envoy
31. 4.2 Astrophysical Spectra
32. 4.3 Spectra and the World of the Atom
33. 4.4 Telescopes
34. 4.5 Atmospheres and Their Problems
35. Anatomy of a Discovery
36. Chapter Summary
37. Questions and Problems
38. Chapter 5: Planetary Systems: Their Birth and Architecture
39. 5.1 The Rest of the Solar System
40. 5.2 Just the Facts: A Solar System Census
41. 5.3 And Pluto Too! Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, and Dwarf Planets
42. 5.4 Our Solar System and Others
43. 5.5 Developing a Theory of Planetary System Formation
44. Anatomy of a Discovery
45. Chapter Summary
46. Questions and Problems
47. Chapter 6: Home Base: Earth and the Moon
48. 6.1 Discovering Change: Arctic Crocodiles and the Earth-Moon System
49. 6.2 Earth Inside and Out
50. 6.3 Earth’s Near-Space Environment
51. 6.4 The Closest Desolation: Earth’s Moon
52. Anatomy of a Discovery
53. Chapter Summary
54. Questions and Problems
55. Chapter 7: Sibling Worlds: Mercury, Venus, and Mars
56. 7.1 Planet Stories
57. 7.2 Mercury: Swift, Small, and Hot
58. 7.3 Venus: Hothouse of the Planets
59. 7.4 Mars: The Red Planet of Change
60. Anatomy of a Discovery
61. Chapter Summary
62. Questions and Problems
63. Chapter 8: Gas, Ice, and Stone: The Outer Planets
64. 8.1 Giant Planets on a Roll
65. 8.2 The Giant Planets: Structures and Processes
66. 8.3 Jupiter: King of Planets
67. 8.4 Saturn: Lord of the Rings
68. 8.5 Uranus and Neptune: Ice Giants Discovered in Twilight
69. Anatomy of a Discovery
70. Chapter Summary
71. Questions and Problems
72. Chapter 9: Life and Planets: The Search for Habitable Worlds
73. 9.1 The Origin of Life and a Trip to Antarctica
74. 9.2 What Is Life, and Where Can It Exist?
75. 9.3 The Origins of Life
76. 9.4 Searching for Other Life in the Universe
77. Anatomy of a Discovery
78. Chapter Summary
79. Questions and Problems
80. Chapter 10: The Sun as a Star: Our Own Fusion Engine
81. 10.1 Living with a Star
82. 10.2 The Sun’s Fusion Furnace
83. 10.3 Moving Energy
84. 10.4 The Active Sun: Photosphere to Corona and Beyond
85. Anatomy of a Discovery
86. Chapter Summary
87. Questions and Problems
88. Chapter 11: Measuring the Stars: The Main Sequence and its Meaning
89. 11.1 The Life of the Stars
90. 11.2 Measuring Stars
91. 11.3 From Observations to Explanations
92. 11.4 The March of Time: Stellar Evolutionary Tracks
93. Anatomy of a Discovery
94. Chapter Summary
95. Questions and Problems
96. Chapter 12: Nursery of the Stars: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
97. 12.1 Seeing in the Dark
98. 12.2 Anatomy of the Interstellar Medium
99. 12.3 Molecular Clouds: The Birthplace of Stars
100. 12.4 From Cloud to Protostar
101. 12.5 From Protostars to Fusion and Brown Dwarfs
102. 12.6 Stellar Interaction
103. Anatomy of a Discovery
104. Chapter Summary
105. Questions and Problems
106. Chapter 13: To the Graveyard of Stars: The End Points of Stellar Evolution
107. 13.1 Fireworks in a Galaxy Not So Very Far Away
108. 13.2 How to Become a Giant: The Fate of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars
109. 13.3 The Last Hurrah: Planetary Nebulas
110. 13.4 White Dwarfs: Stellar Corpses of the First Kind
111. 13.5 Living Fast, Dying Young: The End of Massive Stars
112. 13.6 Big and Bigger Bangs: Novas and Supernovas
113. 13.7 Neutron Stars: Stellar Corpses of the Second Kind
114. Anatomy of a Discovery
115. Chapter Summary
116. Questions and Problems
117. Chapter 14: Down the Rabbit Hole: Relativity and Black Holes
118. 14.1 The Black-Hole Shuffle
119. 14.2 Special Theory of Relativity
120. 14.3 General Theory of Relativity
121. 14.4 Anatomy of a Black Hole
122. 14.5 Real Black Holes in Astronomy
123. Anatomy of a Discovery
124. Chapter Summary
125. Questions and Problems
126. Chapter 15: Our City of Stars: The Milky Way
127. 15.1 A Hard Rain: A New Vision of Galactic Studies
128. 15.2 Anatomy of the Milky Way
129. 15.3 Spiral Arms: Does the Milky Way Have Them?
130. 15.4 The Galactic Center
131. 15.5 Dark Matter and the Milky Way
132. 15.6 Constructing a Galaxy: Evolution of the Milky Way
133. Anatomy of a Discovery
134. Chapter Summary
135. Questions and Problems
136. Chapter 16: A Universe of Galaxies: Beyond the Milky Way
137. 16.1 The Great Debate and the Scale of the Universe
138. 16.2 Galactic Zoology
139. 16.3 The Cosmic Distance Ladder
140. 16.4 Monsters in the Deep: Active Galactic Nuclei
141. 16.5 Galaxies and Dark Matter
142. Anatomy of a Discovery
143. Chapter Summary
144. Questions and Problems
145. Chapter 17: The Cosmic Web: The Large-scale Structure of the Universe
146. 17.1 Bright Lights, Big Universe
147. 17.2 Cosmic Neighborhoods: Galaxy Groups and Galaxy Clusters
148. 17.3 Superclusters and Large-Scale Structure
149. 17.4 Large-Scale Cosmic Structure and Cosmic History
150. 17.5 Building Cosmic Structure
151. Anatomy of a Discovery
152. Chapter Summary
153. Questions and Problems
154. Chapter 18: Endings and Beginnings: Cosmology
155. 18.1 How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Accelerating Universe
156. 18.2 Our Cosmology: The Big Bang
157. 18.3 How Do We Know? The Three Observational Pillars of Big Bang Theory
158. 18.4 Beyond the Classic Big Bang Model
159. 18.5 Questions about “Before” and “Everything”
160. Anatomy of a Discovery
161. Chapter Summary
162. Questions and Problems
163. Appendix 1
164. Appendix 2
165. Appendix 3
166. Appendix 4
167. Appendix 5
168. Appendix 6
169. Appendix 7
170. Appendix 8
171. Selected Answers
172. Glossary
173. Credits
174. Index
175. Endpaper 1
176. Endpaper 2