Discovering the Essential Universe

Neil F. Comins

400 pages, parution le 01/03/2006 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

Based on the most recent edition of Discovering the Universe (2006), this bestselling text is the most concise, least expensive option for introductory astronomy courses. Based on the themes and approach to astronomy found in the longer text.

Thorough updating, including the latest information on:

Extra-solar planets and the new technique (gravitational lensing) for observing them
Titan's surface from the Cassini spacecraft
Evidence of water on Mars from the Rovers
New Kuiper belt objects, such as Sedna
The role of neutron star mergers in the formation of heavy elements
A companion galaxy that that is being devoured by the Milky Way
New observations on the dark matter believed to bind galaxies
Origins of gamma ray bursts
Recent discoveries in cosmology, including a discussion of the accelerating universe

New chapter summariesand end-of-chapter questions, recapping of the main objectives of each chapter and by giving students a review source for exams.

L'auteur - Neil F. Comins

Professor Neil F. Comins is on the faculty of the University of Maine. Born in 1951 in New York City, he grew up in New York and New England. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics at Cornell University, a amster's degree in physics at the University of Maryland, and a PhD in astrophysics from University College, Cardiff, Wales, under the guidance of Bernard F. Schutz. dr. Comins's work for his doctorate, on general relativity, was cited in Subramanyan Chandrasekhar's Nobel laureate speech.

He has done theoretical and experimental research in general relativity, observational astronomy, computer simulations of gaalxy evolution, and science education. The fourth edition of Discovering the Universe was the first textbook that Dr. Comins wrote for W.H. Freeman and Company, having taken over following the death of Bill Kaufmann in 1994. This has been followed by 9 others. he is also the author of three trade books, What If the Moon Didn't Exist ?, Heavenly Errors, and The hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide.

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Sommaire

Discovering the Night Sky
Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
Light and Telescopes
Earth and Moon
The Other Planets and Moons
Vagabonds of the Solar System
The Sun
The Nature of Stars
The Lives of Stars from Birth through Middle Age
The Deaths of Stars
The Galaxies
Cosmology
Appendix
Glossary
Review Questions/Answers

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	W.H. Freeman and Company
Auteur(s)	Neil F. Comins
Parution	01/03/2006
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	400
Format	23 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	945g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780716745952
ISBN13	978-0-7167-4595-2