Explorations
Subtitle: an introduction to astronomy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780078935473
Table of contents: title: Preview : The cosmic landscape; title: The cycles of the sky; title: The rise of astronomy; title: Essay 1 : Backyard astronomy; title: Gravity and motion; title: Light and atoms; title: Essay 2 : Special and general relativity; title: Telescopes; title: The Earth; title: Essay 3 : Keeping time; title: The moon; title: Survey of solar systems; title: The terrestrial planets; title: The outer planets; title: Meteors, asteroids, and comets; title: The sun, our star; title: Measuring the properties of stars; title: Stellar evolution; title: Stellar remnants : white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; title: The Milky Way galaxy; title: Galaxies; title: Cosmology; title: Essay 4 : Life in the universe; title: Answers to test yourself; title: Appendix. Scientific notation; title: Some useful formulas; title: Solving distance, velocity, time (d, V, t) problems; title: Glossary