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Explore Scientific Reasoning by Exploring the Universe Universe by Robert M. Geller and Roger Freedman strikes the right balance between scientific rigour, student comprehension, and excitement. Available as the full 27-chapter text or split into ...
"What if?" questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. "What if the Earth Had Two Moons" leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey exploring what the Earth would be like if conditions in the universe were sli...
NEIL F. COMINS is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine, Orono, USA. WILLIAM J. KAUFMANN III, late of San Diego State University, USA.
Preface PART I: UNDERSTANDING ASTRONOMY Discovering the Night Sky Gravitation and the Motion of the Planets Light and Telescopes Atomic Physics and Spectra PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE SOLAR SYSTEM Formation of the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems Earth and Moon The Other Terrestrial Planets The Outer Planets Vagabonds of the Solar System The Sun: Our Extraordinary Ordinary Star PART III: UNDERSTANDING THE STARS Characterizing Stars The Lives of Stars from Birth Through Middle Age The Deaths of Stars Black Holes: Matters of Gravity PART IV: UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE The Milky Way Galaxy Galaxies Quasars and Other Active Galaxies Cosmology Astrobiology APPENDICES Glossary Answers to Margin Questions and Computational Questions Index