Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Discovering the Essential Universe, Second Edition
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Discovering the Essential Universe [With Access Code]
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9781429230650
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9781429230650
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429255196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Discovering the Universe, Fifth Edition is one of the briefest texts available for an introductory astronomy course, while providing the wide range of factual topics that are the hallmark of the text and are consistent with most course needs. By flipping through the book, readers will find it as rich in celestial images and figures as other textbooks for the same audience. It is a balanced approach to content, depth, and breath, with effective teaching resources. It is also up-to-date, reflecting how our knowledge about the universe is expanding at a phenomenal rate.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429255196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Discovering the Universe, Fifth Edition is one of the briefest texts available for an introductory astronomy course, while providing the wide range of factual topics that are the hallmark of the text and are consistent with most course needs. By flipping through the book, readers will find it as rich in celestial images and figures as other textbooks for the same audience. It is a balanced approach to content, depth, and breath, with effective teaching resources. It is also up-to-date, reflecting how our knowledge about the universe is expanding at a phenomenal rate.
Discovering the Essential Universe (Loose Leaf)
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781429239523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781429239523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Discovering the Essential Universe + the Once And Future Cosmos
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716758693
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716758693
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Discovering the Cosmos
Author: R.C. Bless
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9781891389719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9781891389719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319030203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319030203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.
Discovering the Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins 1951- William J Kaufmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exploring the X-ray Universe
Author: Frederick D. Seward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491539
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dramatic new results from the most powerful X-ray telescopes. Covering all areas of astronomical research, ranging from the smallest to the largest objects, from neutron stars to clusters of galaxies, this textbook is ideal for undergraduate students. Each chapter starts with the basic aspects of the topic, explores the history of discoveries, and examines in detail modern observations and their significance. This new edition has been updated with results from the most recent space-based instruments, including ROSAT, BeppoSAX, ASCA, Chandra, and XMM. New chapters cover X-ray emission processes, the interstellar medium, the Solar System, and gamma-ray bursts. The text is supported by over 300 figures, with tables listing the properties of the sources, and more specialized technical points separated in boxes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491539
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dramatic new results from the most powerful X-ray telescopes. Covering all areas of astronomical research, ranging from the smallest to the largest objects, from neutron stars to clusters of galaxies, this textbook is ideal for undergraduate students. Each chapter starts with the basic aspects of the topic, explores the history of discoveries, and examines in detail modern observations and their significance. This new edition has been updated with results from the most recent space-based instruments, including ROSAT, BeppoSAX, ASCA, Chandra, and XMM. New chapters cover X-ray emission processes, the interstellar medium, the Solar System, and gamma-ray bursts. The text is supported by over 300 figures, with tables listing the properties of the sources, and more specialized technical points separated in boxes.