Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429255196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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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.
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781429217972
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Freeman’s briefest, least expensive introductory astronomy text. Discovering the Essential Universe, Fourth Edition (DEU 4e) is designed to help students overcome common misconceptions about astronomy. It provides up-to-date explanations of core concepts in a flexible and student-friendly text, supported by an impressive collection of multimedia resources developed by astronomy education researchers.
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319030203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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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.
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781464181719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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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. With its signature combination of vivid writing and spectacular images, the new edition offers new findings, new study help, and an expanded new media/supplements package centered on W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad.
Author: Neil F. Comins 1951- William J Kaufmann
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781429239523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Author: Harry Nussbaumer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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This book explores the history of the discovery of the expanding universe, one of the most exciting exploits in astronomy.
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231116454
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Astronomy is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines. With the participation of undergraduate students, Comins has identified and classified, by origin and topic, over 1,700 commonly held misconceptions. 20 illustrations.
Author: Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691258945
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Humanity's ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energy Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past forty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components—dark matter and dark energy—comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all cosmic structure, and hold the key to the universe's fate. The story of how evidence for the so-called "Lambda-Cold Dark Matter" model of cosmology has been gathered by generations of scientists throughout the world is told here by one of the pioneers of the field, Jeremiah Ostriker, and his coauthor Simon Mitton. From humankind's early attempts to comprehend Earth's place in the solar system, to astronomers' exploration of the Milky Way galaxy and the realm of the nebulae beyond, to the detection of the primordial fluctuations of energy from which all subsequent structure developed, this book explains the physics and the history of how the current model of our universe arose and has passed every test hurled at it by the skeptics. Throughout this rich story, an essential theme is emphasized: how three aspects of rational inquiry—the application of direct measurement and observation, the introduction of mathematical modeling, and the requirement that hypotheses should be testable and verifiable—guide scientific progress and underpin our modern cosmological paradigm. This monumental puzzle is far from complete, however, as scientists confront the mysteries of the ultimate causes of cosmic structure formation and the real nature and origin of dark matter and dark energy.
