Discovering the universe

著者

• Comins, Neil F.
• Kaufmann, William J. (...William John...)

書誌事項

Discovering the universe

Neil F. Comins and William J. Kaufmann

W. H. Freeman , Macmillan [manufacture], 1999

5th ed

注記

Previous ed.: Oxford: W. H. Freeman, 1998

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This edition of this brief text has been thoroughly updated. The accompanying CD-ROM features a special student version of the award-winning virtual planetarium software "Starry Night" plus software animations and videos, all illustrations from the text, interactive Q&A and exercises, and supplementary resources. Material can be updated periodically from the Freeman Web site. There is an online study guide offering a CD-Web guide, chapter objectives, key terms, review questions, "Starry Night" observations exercises and online tutorials.

目次

• Build your foundation I - discovering astronomy: discovering the night sky
• gravitation and the waltz of the planets
• light and telescopes
• the origin and nature of light. Build your foundation II - the solar system: earth and moon
• the other terrestrial planets
• the outer planets
• vagabonds of the solar system
• our star, the Sun. Build your foundation III - the stars: the nature of stars
• the lives of stars
• the deaths of stars
• black holes. Build your foundation IV - the universe: the Milky Way galaxy
• galaxies
• quasars and active galaxies
• cosmology
• the search for extraterrestrial life. Appendices: tables of data
• temperatures and temperature scales.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA47500372
• ISBN:
  • 0716736373
  • 0716736373
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York,Basingstoke
• ページ数/冊数: 480p
• 大きさ: 28 cm.
• 付属資料: 1 CD-ROM
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 523.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Cosmology
  • LCSH : Astronomy
  • LCSH : Space sciences