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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780030044991
  • Publisher: Saunders College Publishing
  • Publication date: 1/28/1987
  • Edition description: 2nd ed
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 560

Table of Contents

Preface
Prelude
Pt. I The Solar System 1
1 Celestial Mechanics and the Solar System 2
2 The Solar System in Perspective 20
3 The Dynamics of the Earth 35
4 The Earth-Moon System 53
5 The Terrestrial Planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars 79
6 The Jovian Planets and Pluto 100
7 Small Bodies and the Origin of the Solar System 118
Pt. II The Stars 151
8 Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter 152
9 Telescopes and Detectors 179
10 The Sun: A Model Star 200
11 Stars: Distances and Magnitudes 224
12 Stars: Binary Systems 235
13 Stars: The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 251
Pt. III The Milky Way Galaxy 271
14 Our Galaxy: A Preview 272
15 The Interstellar Medium and Star Birth 284
16 The Evolution of Stars 310
17 Star Deaths 332
18 Variable and Violent Stars 352
19 Galactic Rotation: Stellar Motions 380
20 The Evolution of Our Galaxy 393
Pt. IV The Universe 413
21 Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way 414
22 Hubble's Law and the Distance Scale 433
23 Large-Scale Structure in the Universe 446
24 Active Galaxies and Quasars 465
25 Cosmology: The Big Bang and Beyond 488
26 The New Cosmology 503
Comet Update
App. 1 The Messier Catalog A-1
App. 2 Constellations A-4
App. 3 Solar System Data A-7
App. 4 Stellar Data A-10
App. 5 Atomic Elements A-13
App. 6 Conversion of Units A-15
App. 7 Constants and Units A-17
App. 8 The Greek Alphabet A-19
App. 9 Mathematical Operations A-20
App. 10 The Celestial Sphere A-32
Glossary G-1
Index I-1
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