Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewThe text takes all of the features that have made Arny Explorations a top-selling textbook and applies them under a stars-first approach.This new edition continues to offer the most complete technology/new media support package available. That technology/new media package includes: 6 NEW Interactives; PowerWeb (web-based research and interactive quizzing - very current); Online Learning Center (that allows instructors to take their course to the web if they choose); and a new CD-ROM that offers new and different text material/animations/links to even further enhance student comprehension. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas ArnyPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional Dimensions: Width: 21.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 27.70cm Weight: 1.295kg ISBN: 9780072996999ISBN 10: 0072996994 Publication Date: 16 January 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Book Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsPreview The Cosmic Landscape1 History of AstronomyEssay 1 Backyard Astronomy2 Gravity and Motion3 Light and Atoms4 Telescopes5 The Sun, Our Star6 Measuring the Properties of Stars7 Stellar Evolution8 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes9 The Milky Way Galaxy10 Galaxies11 Cosmology12 The Earth Essay 2 Keeping Time13 The Moon14 Survey of the Solar System15 The Terrestrial Planets16 The Outer Planets17 Meteors, Asteroids, and CometsEssay 4 Life in the UniverseAppendixPowers-of-Ten NotationSome Useful FormulasSolving Distance, Velocity, Time (D, v, t)ProblemsReviewsAuthor InformationTom Arny is an Emeritus professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was associated there with the Five College Astronomy Program(comprising faculty from U-Mass, Amhurst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges). Dr. Arny received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona. In addition to his interest in astronomy, he has a long-standing fascination with the natural world: weather (especially atmospheric optics such as rainbows), birds, wildflowers, and butterflies. Visit Dr. Arny's website at: http://www.astro.umass.edu/~arny/astro100.html Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
