The Cosmic Perspective

Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit

800 pages, parution le 03/03/2006 (4^eme édition)

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Résumé

The Fourth Edition of The Cosmic Perspective builds on the textbook's long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation.

Renowned for its up-to-date and expert coverage, this student-friendly text focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. The Fourth Edition features a new straightforward learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, and chapter summaries to make learning goals more explicit and to tie together important concepts. The comprehensive media package has been expanded to help students and professors seamlessly integrate the text's superior media into their classroom presentations, homework, and test review. New interactive figures and interactive photos for each chapter help students visualize complex astronomical concepts and an expanded Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM features even more material for instructors to incorporate into their lectures.

Sommaire

Developing Perspective
- Our Place in the Universe
- Discovering the Universe for Yourself
- The Science of Astronomy
Key Concepts for Astronomy
- Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
- Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos
- Telescopes: Portals of Discovery
Learning from Other Worlds
- Our Solar System
- Formation of the Solar System
- Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
- Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
- Jovian Planet Systems
- Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto
- Other Planetary Systems
A Deeper Look at Nature
- Space and Time
- Spacetime and Gravity
- Building Blocks of the Universe
Stars
- Our Star
- Surveying the Stars
- Star Birth
- Star Stuff
- The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
Galaxies and Beyond
- Our Galaxy
- A Universe of Galaxies
- Galaxy Evolution
- Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
- The Beginning of Time
Life on Earth And Beyond
- Life in the Universe

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Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit
Parution	03/03/2006
Édition	4^eme édition
Nb. de pages	800
Format	21,5 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1800g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780805392692
ISBN13	978-0-8053-9269-2