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Product Details:
- ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393124002
- ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393124002
- Author:Â Adam Frank
Astronomy: At Play in the Cosmos brings popular science writing to a textbook. In every chapter, author Adam Frank―a co-writer of the NPR blog “13.7 Cosmos and Culture”―integrates two interviews with leading scientists, a fascinating second voice that drives the narrative while making astronomy feel immediate, relevant, and real for students, and still capturing science’s human nature.
Table of Content:
- Chapter 1: Getting Started: Science, Astronomy, and Being Human
- 1.1 Miles Apart and Years Between
- 1.2 Very, Very Old and Really, Really Big
- 1.3 The Contents and Story of the Cosmos
- 1.4 Why Science?
- 1.5 Science, Politics, and the Human Prospect on a Changing Planet
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 2: A Universe Made, a Universe Discovered: The Night Sky and the Dawn of Astronomy
- 2.1 An Old Obsession
- 2.2 Dance of Night and Day: Basic Motions of the Sky
- 2.3 Monthly Changes of the Moon
- 2.4 Celestial Wanderers: The Motion of Planets
- 2.5 Stone and Myth: Astronomy Begins
- 2.6 The Greek Advancement of Science
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 3: A Universe of Universal Laws: From the Copernican Revolution to Newton’s Gravity
- 3.1 Getting Past Ptolemy: The Copernican Revolution
- 3.2 Planets, Politics, and the Observations of Tycho Brahe
- 3.3 Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
- 3.4 Galileo Invents New Sciences
- 3.5 Newton and the Universal Laws of Motion
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 4: A Universe of Universal Laws: How Light, Matter, and Heat Shape the Cosmos
- 4.1 Light: The Cosmic Envoy
- 4.2 Astrophysical Spectra
- 4.3 Spectra and the World of the Atom
- 4.4 Telescopes
- 4.5 Atmospheres and Their Problems
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 5: Planetary Systems: Their Birth and Architecture
- 5.1 The Rest of the Solar System
- 5.2 Just the Facts: A Solar System Census
- 5.3 And Pluto Too! Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, and Dwarf Planets
- 5.4 Our Solar System and Others
- 5.5 Developing a Theory of Planetary System Formation
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 6: Home Base: Earth and the Moon
- 6.1 Discovering Change: Arctic Crocodiles and the Earth-Moon System
- 6.2 Earth Inside and Out
- 6.3 Earth’s Near-Space Environment
- 6.4 The Closest Desolation: Earth’s Moon
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 7: Sibling Worlds: Mercury, Venus, and Mars
- 7.1 Planet Stories
- 7.2 Mercury: Swift, Small, and Hot
- 7.3 Venus: Hothouse of the Planets
- 7.4 Mars: The Red Planet of Change
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 8: Gas, Ice, and Stone: The Outer Planets
- 8.1 Giant Planets on a Roll
- 8.2 The Giant Planets: Structures and Processes
- 8.3 Jupiter: King of Planets
- 8.4 Saturn: Lord of the Rings
- 8.5 Uranus and Neptune: Ice Giants Discovered in Twilight
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 9: Life and Planets: The Search for Habitable Worlds
- 9.1 The Origin of Life and a Trip to Antarctica
- 9.2 What Is Life, and Where Can It Exist?
- 9.3 The Origins of Life
- 9.4 Searching for Other Life in the Universe
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 10: The Sun as a Star: Our Own Fusion Engine
- 10.1 Living with a Star
- 10.2 The Sun’s Fusion Furnace
- 10.3 Moving Energy
- 10.4 The Active Sun: Photosphere to Corona and Beyond
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 11: Measuring the Stars: The Main Sequence and its Meaning
- 11.1 The Life of the Stars
- 11.2 Measuring Stars
- 11.3 From Observations to Explanations
- 11.4 The March of Time: Stellar Evolutionary Tracks
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 12: Nursery of the Stars: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
- 12.1 Seeing in the Dark
- 12.2 Anatomy of the Interstellar Medium
- 12.3 Molecular Clouds: The Birthplace of Stars
- 12.4 From Cloud to Protostar
- 12.5 From Protostars to Fusion and Brown Dwarfs
- 12.6 Stellar Interaction
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 13: To the Graveyard of Stars: The End Points of Stellar Evolution
- 13.1 Fireworks in a Galaxy Not So Very Far Away
- 13.2 How to Become a Giant: The Fate of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars
- 13.3 The Last Hurrah: Planetary Nebulas
- 13.4 White Dwarfs: Stellar Corpses of the First Kind
- 13.5 Living Fast, Dying Young: The End of Massive Stars
- 13.6 Big and Bigger Bangs: Novas and Supernovas
- 13.7 Neutron Stars: Stellar Corpses of the Second Kind
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 14: Down the Rabbit Hole: Relativity and Black Holes
- 14.1 The Black-Hole Shuffle
- 14.2 Special Theory of Relativity
- 14.3 General Theory of Relativity
- 14.4 Anatomy of a Black Hole
- 14.5 Real Black Holes in Astronomy
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 15: Our City of Stars: The Milky Way
- 15.1 A Hard Rain: A New Vision of Galactic Studies
- 15.2 Anatomy of the Milky Way
- 15.3 Spiral Arms: Does the Milky Way Have Them?
- 15.4 The Galactic Center
- 15.5 Dark Matter and the Milky Way
- 15.6 Constructing a Galaxy: Evolution of the Milky Way
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 16: A Universe of Galaxies: Beyond the Milky Way
- 16.1 The Great Debate and the Scale of the Universe
- 16.2 Galactic Zoology
- 16.3 The Cosmic Distance Ladder
- 16.4 Monsters in the Deep: Active Galactic Nuclei
- 16.5 Galaxies and Dark Matter
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 17: The Cosmic Web: The Large-scale Structure of the Universe
- 17.1 Bright Lights, Big Universe
- 17.2 Cosmic Neighborhoods: Galaxy Groups and Galaxy Clusters
- 17.3 Superclusters and Large-Scale Structure
- 17.4 Large-Scale Cosmic Structure and Cosmic History
- 17.5 Building Cosmic Structure
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Chapter 18: Endings and Beginnings: Cosmology
- 18.1 How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Accelerating Universe
- 18.2 Our Cosmology: The Big Bang
- 18.3 How Do We Know? The Three Observational Pillars of Big Bang Theory
- 18.4 Beyond the Classic Big Bang Model
- 18.5 Questions about “Before” and “Everything”
- Anatomy of a Discovery
- Chapter Summary
- Questions and Problems
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Appendix 7
- Appendix 8
- Selected Answers
- Glossary
- Credits
- Index
- Endpaper 1
- Endpaper 2
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