Title:
Introductory astronomy & astrophysics
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Series:
Saunders golden sunburst series
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
South Melbourne, Vic. : Brooks Cole Thomson Learning, 1998
ISBN:
9780030062285
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Summary
Summary
This advanced undergraduate text provides broad coverage of astronomy and astrophyscis with a strong emphasis on physics. It has an algebra and trigonometry prerequisite, but calculus is preferred.
Table of Contents
| Physics Prelude |
| Orbits in the Solar System |
| Orbits Outside the Solar System |
| Special Relativity |
| Particles and Forces |
| Stars |
| Radiation Processes |
| Cosmology |
| Part 1 The Solar System |
| 1 Celestial Mechanics and the Solar System |
| 2 The Solar System in Perspective |
| 3 The Dynamics of the Earth |
| 4 The Earth - Moon System |
| 5 The Terrestrial Planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars |
| 6 The Jovian Planets |
| 7 Small Bodies and the Origin of the Solar System |
| Part 2 The Stars |
| 8 Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter |
| 9 Telescopes and Detectors |
| 10 The Sun: A Model Star |
| 11 Stars: Distances and Magnitudes |
| 12 Stars: Binary Systems |
| 13 Stars: The Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram |
| Part 3 The Milky Way Galaxy |
| 14 Our Galaxy: A Preview |
| 15 The Interstellar Medium and Star Birth |
| 16 The Evolution of Stars |
| 17 Star Deaths |
| 18 Variable and Violent Stars |
| 19 Galactic Rotation: Stellar Motions |
| 20 The Evolution of Our Galaxy |
| Part 4 The Universe |
| 21 Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way |
| 22 Hubble's Law and The Distance Scale |
| 23 Large-Scale Structure in the Universe |
| 24 Active Galaxies and Quasars |
| 25 Cosmology: The Big Bang and Beyond |
| 26 The New Cosmology |
| Hale-Bopp Comet Update |
| Appendices |
| Glossary |
