In Quest of the UniverseJones & Bartlett Learning, 2007 - 648 من الصفحات New to this Edition! A new chapter on the Night Sky urges students to become "backyard astronomers" and observe the sky on multiple clear nights while taking note of the patterns of the positions of stars and planets.New to this |
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Leap Year and the Calendar | 15 |
Building a Replica of the Solar System | 33 |
From an EarthCentered to a SunCentered System | 36 |
Astrology and ScienceScientific Criteria Applied | 45 |
The Radius of Venus Orbit | 68 |
Travel to the Moon | 84 |
The Special Theory of Relativity | 93 |
Circular Motion | 97 |
Hit by a Meteorite? | 319 |
The Sun | 328 |
CHAPTER | 370 |
260 | 375 |
Interstellar Matter and Star Formation | 395 |
14 | 405 |
CHAPTER | 466 |
CONTENTS | 479 |
Measuring the Speed of Light | 103 |
Evidence for the WaveParticle Duality of Light | 116 |
CHAPTER | 158 |
The Far Side of the Moon | 180 |
The Voyager Spacecraft | 190 |
The Discovery of the Asteroids | 198 |
CHAPTER | 203 |
Our Changing View of Venus | 230 |
Surface Conditions and the Case for Water on Mars | 247 |
Jupiter as Seen From Space | 262 |
Jupiters Moons | 268 |
220 | 277 |
Shepherd MoonsInside the Roche Limit?Chaotic Motions | 286 |
The Mission to Eros | 303 |
A Diversity of Galaxies | 510 |
CHAPTER | 516 |
Competing Theories for the Quasar Redshift | 537 |
The Nature of the Universe | 551 |
Copernicus and His Times 50 | 592 |
Isaac Newton 77 | 600 |
Appendix H Answers to Selected Questions Calculations | 620 |
Glossary | 629 |
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xvi | 648 |
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