R. C. Bless

Discovering the Cosmos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on Bob Bless's extensive experience teaching astronomy courses, this book provides a rich, historical approach to introductory astronomy. In the fifteen years since the first edition of this text was published, several new concepts such as dark matter, dark energy, and an incredible expansion of the universe (inflation) have been developed. Furthermore, many of the exotic effects predicted by General Relativity (e.g. black holes, warped space) have gone from being interesting theoretical speculations to useful practical tools for understanding the universe. This book aims to give an overview of astronomy, but in such a way that the non-science major can get a feeling for how science actually developed with its false starts and wrong turns, which observational evidence eventually corrected. Several chapters of the second edition have been extensively revised to include the incredible recent developments in our understanding of the physical universe. This streamlined new edition is ideal for use as the primary text in an introductory astronomy course for nonmajors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / University Science Books
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 212mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1495g
• ISBN-13: 9781891389719
• ISBN-10: 1891389718
• Artikelnr.: 35002170

Autorenporträt

R.C. BLESS is from the University of Wisconsin, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Comments to the Reader.- PART I: COSMOLOGY FROM THE BEGINNINGS THROUGH NEWTON.- The Naked Eye Sky.- Early Greek Astronomy.- The Beginnings of Quantitative Astronomy.- The New Astronomy.- Newtonian Synthesis.- PART II: THE TOOLS OF THE ASTRONOMER.- Tools of the Astronomer Physical Concepts.- Tools of the Astronomer Hardware.- PART III: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STARS.- Reading Stellar Spectra.- The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.- The Structure of Stars.- The Interstellar Medium Birthplace of the Stars.- Stellar Evolution The Early Phases.- The Late Phases of Stellar Evolution Degenerate Corpses.- Black Holes.- PART IV: COSMOLOGY FROM HERSCHEL TO THE PRESENT.- The Discovery of Galaxies.- The Universe of Galaxies.- Active Galaxies.- The First Cosmological Clues.- Models of the Universe.- The Mysterious Universe.- Epilogue.- Life Elsewhere Are We Alone?.