- Cosmic Perspective, The, 5/E
- ISBN-10: 0321505670 • ISBN-13: 9780321505675
- ©2008 • Addison-Wesley • Paper Package, 864 pp
- Published 12/05/2007
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- Cosmic Perspective, The, 5/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
ISBN-10: 0321506189 • ISBN-13: 9780321506184
©2008 • Paper, 736 pp
- MasteringAstronomy™ Student Access Kit for The Cosmic Perspective (component), 5/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
ISBN-10: 0321511697 • ISBN-13: 9780321511690
©2008 • Access Code Card, 1 pp
- Voyager: SkyGazer V4.0 College Edition CD-ROM, 5/E
Carina Software
ISBN-10: 0321503376 • ISBN-13: 9780321503374
©2008 • CD-ROM Only
Description
Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective, Fifth Edition includes an enhanced art program. This student-friendly text is now even more accessible through robust visual pedagogy via new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations, which walk students through key processes and summarize the major points of each Part, and via updated zoom-in figures which provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to an enhanced art program, the text also features new See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new subset of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.
The Cosmic Perspective, Fifth Edition, includes the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built: MasteringAstronomyTM It provides both instructor-assigned homework and a self-study area containing our popular astronomy media that includes Interactive TutorialsTM, Interactive Figures and PhotosTM , quizzes, and more. The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. This unparalleled media package is designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.
Features
- Consistent Chapter Structure Focused on Learning Goals features:
- Motivational learning goals that begin each chapter to focus students on the important concepts.
- Learning goals that each function as the title of a section. Each section is written to address one–and only one–learning goal, ushering students through each chapter with a focus on key concepts.
- Visual summaries at the end of each chapter revisit learning goals with text and key figures, and reinforce what students have learned.
- An integrated media program using icons throughout the text directs students to the most widely-used library (over 100,000 users to date) of purpose-built astronomy media, including Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures™ and Interactive Photos™ which focus on the concepts students struggle with most.
- Annotated Figures and Photos help students better understand the key concepts presented in complex figures or graphs and build visual interpretation skills.
- The Process of Science is integrated seamlessly throughout, is a core theme and is reinforced in the end end of chapter questions.
- A cosmic framework establishes a solid foundation of understanding by exploring the key themes of our place in the universe and how astronomers know what they know, and fleshes out these themes throughout the text. This approach motivates students to learn, and helps them develop a personal understanding of astronomy and a lasting appreciation of the process of science.
- A planet-by-planet introduction gives students an overarching picture of the solar system first, followed by a comparative approach that emphasizes similarities between planets and explores their connecting processes. This combined approach gives students a deeper understanding of our solar system, our world, and prospects for life elsewhere in the universe.
- A Media Explorations page at the end of each chapter provides quick exercises and in-depth projects using the wealth of specially developed interactive media on MasteringAstronomyTM and tools available in the Voyager: SkyGazer planetarium software.
New To This Edition
- Enhanced Visual Pedagogy makes this already student-friendly text even more accessible through the use of carefully crafted annotations, Cosmic Context process and summary figures, stepped blow-outs, multi-frequency images, and increased image size.
- Cosmic Context Figures combine text and illustrations into accessible and coherent visual summaries that will help improve your students’ understanding of essential topics.
- Expanded end-of-chapter problems include quick quizzes, multiple-choice, self-study questions, quantitative problems, and brand new Process of Science questions which ask students to think more deeply about how we know what we know about astronomy today.
- Thorough coverage of new discoveries includes the IAU dwarf planet debate and the status of Pluto and Eris, the accelerating universe/cosmological constant, the detection of more planets around other stars, the potential of water flows on Mars, and the latest theories on the very early universe.
- MasteringAstronomy™ is the most sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built. It provides both instructor-assigned homework as well as a self-study area with all of the popular Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Photos, quizzes and more.
- An updated Cosmic Lecture Launcher includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos™ based on figures in the text, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources
Table of Contents
PART I DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE
1 Our Place in the Universe
1.1 Our Modern View of the Universe
1.2 The Scale of the Universe
1.3 Spaceship Earth
1.4 The Human Adventure of Astronomy
2 Discovering the Universe for Yourself
2.1 Patterns in the Night Sky
2.2 The Reason for Seasons
2.3 The Moon, Our Constant Companion
2.4 The Ancient Mystery of the Planets
3 The Science of Astronomy
3.1 The Ancient Roots of Science
3.2 Ancient Greek Science
3.3 The Copernican Revolution
3.4 The Nature of Science
3.5 Astrology
S1 Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation
S1.1 Astronomical Time Periods
S1.2 Celestial Coordinates and Motion in the Sky
S1.3 Principles of Celestial Navigation
PART II KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY
4 Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
4.1 Describing Motion: Examples from Daily Life
4.2 Newton’s Laws of Motion
4.3 Conservation Laws in Astronomy
4.4 The Universal Law of Gravitation
4.5 Orbits, Tides, and the Acceleration of Gravity
5 Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos
5.1 Light in Everyday Life
5.2 Properties of Light
5.3 Properties of Matter
5.4 Learning from Light
5.5 The Doppler Shift
6 Telescopes: Portals of Discovery
6.1 Eyes and Cameras: Everyday Light Sensors
6.2 Telescopes: Giant Eyes
6.3 Telescopes and the Atmosphere
6.4 Telescopes and Technology
PART III LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS
7 Our Solar System
7.1 Studying the Solar System
7.2 Patterns in the Solar System
7.3 Spacecraft Exploration of the Solar System
8 Formation of the Solar System
8.1 The Search for Origins
8.2 The Birth of the Solar System
8.3 The Formation of Planets
8.4 The Aftermath of Planet Formation
8.5 The Age of the Solar System
9 Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
9.1 Connecting Planetary Interiors and Surfaces
9.2 Shaping Planetary Surfaces
9.3 Geology of the Moon and Mercury
9.4 Geology of Mars
9.5 Geology of Venus
9.6 The Unique Geology of Earth
10 Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
10.1 Atmospheric Basics
10.2 Weather and Climate
10.3 Atmospheres of the Moon and Mercury
10.4 The Atmospheric History of Mars
10.5 The Atmospheric History of Venus
10.6 Earth’s Unique Atmosphere
11 Jovian Planet Systems
11.1 A Different Kind of Planet
11.2 A Wealth of Worlds: Satellites of Ice and Rock
11.3 Jovian Planet Rings
12 Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts
12.1 Asteroids and Meteorites
12.2 Comets
12.3 Pluto: Lone Dog No More
12.4 Cosmic Collisions: Small Bodies Versus the Planets
13 Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds
13.1 Detecting Extrasolar Planets
13.2 The Nature of Extrasolar Planets
13.3 The Formation of Other Solar Systems
13.4 Finding More New Worlds
PART IV A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE
S2 Space and Time
S2.1 Einstein’s Revolution
S2.2 Relative Motion
S2.3 The Reality of Space and Time
S2.4 Toward a New Common Sense
S3 Spacetime and Gravity
S3.1 Einstein’s Second Revolution
S3.2 Understanding Spacetime
S3.3 A New View of Gravity
S3.4 Testing Special Relativity
S3.5 Hyperspace, Wormholes, and Warp Drive
S3.6 The Last Word
S4 Building Blocks of the Universe
S4.1 The Quantum Revolution
S4.2 Fundamental Particles and Forces
S4.3 Uncertainty and Exclusion in the Quantum Realm
S4.4 Key Quantum Effects in Astronomy
PART V STELLAR ALCHEMY
14 Our Star
14.1 A Closer Look at the Sun
14.2 The Cosmic Crucible
14.3 The Sun-Earth Connection
15 Surveying the Stars
15.1 Properties of Stars
15.2 Patterns Among Stars
15.3 Star Clusters
16 Star Birth
16.1 Stellar Nurseries
16.2 Stages of Star Birth
16.3 Masses of Newborn Stars
17 Star Stuff
17.1 Lives in the Balance
17.2 Life as a Low-Mass Star
17.3 Life as a High-Mass Star
17.4 The Roles of Mass and Mass Exchange
18 The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
18.1 White Dwarfs
18.2 Neutron Stars
18.3 Black Holes: Gravity’s Ultimate Victory
18.4 The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
PART VI GALAXIES AND BEYOND
19 Our Galaxy
19.1 The Milky Way Revealed
19.2 Galactic Recycling
19.3 History of the Milky Way
19.4 The Mysterious Galactic Center
20 Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology
20.1 Islands of Stars
20.2 Measuring Galactic Distances
20.3 Hubble's Law
21 Galaxy Evolution
21.1 Looking Back Through Time
21.2 The Lives of Galaxies
21.3 Quasars and Other Active Galactic Nuclei
22 Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
22.1 Unseen Influences in the Cosmos
22.2 Evidence for Dark Matter
22.3 Structure Formation
22.4 The Fate of the Universe
23 The Beginning of Time
23.1 The Big Bang
23.2 Evidence for the Big Bang
23.3 The Big Bang and Inflation
23.4 Observing the Big Bang for Yourself
PART VI LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND
24 Life in the Universe
24.1 Life on Earth
24.2 Life in the Solar System
24.3 Life Around other Stars
24.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
24.5 Interstellar Travel and Its Implications to Civilization
Previous Editions
- Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The, 4/E
- ISBN-10: 0805366474 • ISBN-13: 9780805366471
- ©2007 • Paper Bound w/CD-ROM, 736 pp • Out of Print
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- Cosmic Perspective Plus MasteringAstronomy with eText -- Access Card Package, 7/E
- ISBN-10: 0321839501 • ISBN-13: 9780321839503
- ©2014 • Paper Bound with Access Card, 832 pp • Instock
- Suggested retail price: $163.07
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- Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy, The, 6/E
- ISBN-10: 0321620909 • ISBN-13: 9780321620903
- ©2010 • Paper Package, 832 pp • Instock
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- Cosmic Perspective, The, 7/E
- ISBN-10: 0321839552 • ISBN-13: 9780321839558
- ©2014 • Paper, 832 pp • Instock
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- Cosmic Perspective, The, 6/E
- ISBN-10: 0321633660 • ISBN-13: 9780321633668
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- MasteringAstronomy for The Cosmic Perspective, 5/E
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