书名：Pathways to astronomy
责任者：Stephen E. Schneider | Professor of Astronomy | University of Massachusetts | Amherst | Thomas T. Arny | Professor of Astronomy | Emeritus | University of Massachusetts | Amherst.
ISBN\ISSN：9780073512242,0073512249
出版时间：2015
出版社：McGraw-Hill Education,
分类号：天文学、地球科学
版次：Fourth edition.
前言
Pathways to Astronomy breaks down introductory astronomy into its component parts. The huge and fascinating field of astronomy is divided into 86 units. These units are woven together to flow naturally for the person who wants to read the text like a book, but it is also possible to assign them in different orders, or skip certain units altogether. Professors can customize the units to fit their course needs. They can select individual units for exploration in lecture while assigning easier units for self-study, or they can cover all the units in full depth in a content-rich course. With the short length of units, students can easily digest the material covered in an individual unit before moving onto the next unit.
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目录
Looking Up Illustrations i
Preface xxv
PART 1 THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE 1
Unit 1 Our Planetary Neighborhood 1
Unit 2 Beyond the Solar System 9
Unit 3 Astronomical Numbers 17
Unit 4 Scientific Foundations of Astronomy 25
Unit 5 The Night Sky 33
Unit 6 The Year 40
Unit 7 TheTime of Day 51
Unit 8 Lunar Cycles 58
Unit 9 Calendars 69
Unit 10 Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun 76
Unit 11 Planets: The Wandering Stars 84
Unit 12 The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy 93
Unit 13 Observing the Sky 100
PART 2 PROBING MATTER, LIGHT, AND THEIR INTERACTIONS 109
Unit 14 Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force 109
Unit 15 Force, Acceleration, and Interaction 114
Unit 16 The Universal Law of Gravity 120
Unit 17 Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion 125
Unit 18 Orbital and Escape Velocities 129
Unit 19 Tides 135
Unit 20 Conservation Laws 141
Unit 21 The Dual Nature of Light and Matter 147Fe cme
Unit 22 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 155
Unit 23 Thermal Radiation 162
Unit 24 Identifying Atoms by Their Spectra 168
Unit 25 The Doppler Shift 177
Unit 26 Special Relativity 181
Unit 27 General Relativity 189
Unit 28 Detecting Light - An Overview 196
Unit 29 Collecting Light 203
Unit 30 Focusing Light 210
Unit 31 Telescope Resolution 218
Unit 32 The Earth's Atmosphere and Space Observatories 224
Unit 33 Amateur Astronomy 232
PART 3 THE SOLAR SYSTEM 241
Unit 34 The Structure of the Solar System 241
Unit 35 The Origin of the Solar System 250
Unit 36 Other Planetary Systems 261
Unit 37 The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet 270
Unit 38 Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere 281
Unit 39 Our Moon 292
Unit 40 Mercury 302
Unit 41 Venus 309
Unit 42 Mars 316
Unit 43 Asteroids 328
Unit 44 Comparative Planetology 336
Unit 45 Jupiter and Saturn 347
Unit 46 Uranus and Neptune 355
Unit 47 Satellite Systems and Rings 361
Unit 48 Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond 371
Unit 49 Comets 382
Unit 50 Impacts on Earth 392
PATR 4 STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION 402
Unit 51 The Sun, Our Star 402
Unit 52 The Sun's Source of Power 412
Unit 53 Solar Activity 420
Unit 54 Surveying the Stars 429
Unit 55 The Luminosities of Stars 440
Unit 56 The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars 446
Unit 57 The Masses of Orbiting Stars 454
Unit 58 The Sizes of Stars 459
Unit 59 The H-R Diagram 465
Unit 60 Overview of Stellar Evolution 473
Unit 61 Star Formation 481
Unit 62 Main-Sequence Stars 489
Unit 63 Giant Stars 496
Unit 64 Variable Stars 503
Unit 65 Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars 509
Unit 66 Exploding White Dwarfs 516
Unit 67 Old Age and Death of Massive Stars 522
Unit 68 Neutron Stars 532
Unit 69 Black Holes 539
Unit 70 Star Clusters 548
PART 5 GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE 557
Unit 71 Discovering the Milky Way 557
Unit 72 Stars of the Milky Way 564
Unit 73 Gas and Dust in the Milky Way 572
Unit 74 Mass and Motions in the Milky Way 580
Unit 75 A Universe of Galaxies 589
Unit 76 Types of Galaxies 598
Unit 77 Galaxy Clustering 609
Unit 78 Active Galactic Nuclei 618
Unit 79 Dark Matter 627
Unit 80 Cosmology 635
Unit 81 The Edges of the Universe 644
Unit 82 The Curvature and Expansion of the Universe 652
Unit 83 The Beginnings of the Universe 660
Unit 84 Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe 671
Unit 85 Astrobiology 679
Unit 86 The Search for Life Elsewhere 688
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作者简介
Tom Arny received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona. In addition to his interest in astronomy, he has a long-standing fascination with the natural world: weather (especially atmospheric optics such as rainbows), birds, wildflowers, and butterflies.
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