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The Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, 4/E
Jeffrey O. Bennett, University of Colorado, Boulder
Megan Donahue, Michigan State University
Nicholas Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder
Mark Voit, Michigan State University

ISBN-10: 0805366474
ISBN-13: 9780805366471

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 736 pp
Status: Out of Print

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Building on a long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation, The Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update now includes an enhanced media package that features the most advanced astronomy tutorial, assessment, and self-study system ever built. The Fourth Edition Media Update includes MasteringAstronomy™, Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook, and an e-book CD-ROM with embedded animations — a convenient additional study resource for students on the go -– all designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

 

MasteringAstronomy’s sophisticated analysis of student performance data (including difficulty, time spent, and most common errors) has allowed every item to be systematically refined for quality, educational effectiveness, efficiency of teaching and learning, and assessment accuracy.  The Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM allows professors to integrate animations and interactive tools into classroom lectures, while the Voyager SkyGazer CD-ROM, also included with the text,provides students with the most popular planetarium software to help them learn more about their place in the universe.

 

The Fourth Edition Media Update is a student-friendly text that focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fourth Edition Media Update retains and builds on all the features and supplements that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.

 

  • Easy to use learning program includes:
    • Motivational learning goals begin each chapter to focus students on the important concepts.
    • Each learning goal functions 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, reinforcing what students have learned.
  • Integrated Media Program.Icons throughout the text direct students to the most widely-usedlibrary of purpose-built astronomy media, including Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Interactive Photos. Used by over 100,000 students, this media focuses on the concepts with which students commonly struggle.
  • Annotated Figures and Photos. Research shows that annotations help students better understand the key concepts presented in a figure or graph and builds visual interpretation skills.
  • Expanded end-of-chapter problems include “Quick Quiz,” multiple-choice self-study questions and an expanded set of quantitative problems.
  • “Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy and Gravity” Chapter consolidates introductory material and highlights astronomical applications of physics to get students into astronomy content quicker.
  • “Other Planetary Systems” Chapter illuminates this rapidly developing research field in a way that is accessible to students and integrates the most recent discoveries with our fundamental understanding of planetary properties.
  • New chapter on Star Birth and extensive coverage of star properties and galaxy formation.
  • Planetary geology and planetary atmosphere chapters use Earth as the basis of comparisons for understanding our solar system.
  • Thorough coverage of new discoveries such as 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.
  • Big picture approach presents each topic within a cosmic context, creating a framework for understanding by first exploring the underlying themes and then fleshing them out in more detail.
  • Exceptional art program features carefully developed, clear, and imaginative illustrations to help students understand difficult concepts. Comprehensive star charts are included at the end of the book.
  • Focus on the universality of physics and the importance of science helps students see how the phenomena they observe in their own lives are connected to the processes that govern the cosmos.
  • Evolving vision of galaxies and dark matter concentrates on our emerging understanding of galaxy evolution—explaining starbursts, quasars, and intergalactic clouds within context—and how this parallels stellar evolution.
  • A planet-by-planet introduction gives students an overarching picture of the solar system first, followed by a comparative approach then 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.
  • Straight-forward learning program helps students navigate their way through the text:
  • Media explorations page at the end of each chapter, provides quick exercises and in-depth projects using the wealth of specially developed on-line and CD-based media supporting this text.

  • An enhanced cohesive, state-of-the art media package includes:
    • e-Book CD-ROM includes navigation at the chapter leveland all of the interactive figures have been integrated into the system.
    • Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software CD-ROM, included with the text, combines exceptional planetarium software with informative tutorials, helping students learn more about their place in the universe.
    • Updated Astronomy Media Workbook integrates MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software content with the textbook.

I. Developing Perspective

1. Our Place in the Universe

2. Discovering the Universe for Yourself

3. The Science of Astronomy

S1. Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation

 

II. Key Concepts for Astronomy

4. Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity

5. Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos

6. Telescopes: Portals of Discovery

 

III. Learning from Other Worlds

7. Our Planetary System

8. Formation of the Solar System

9. Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds

10. Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds

11. Jovian Planet Systems

12. Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets, and the Kuiper Belt

13. Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds

 

IV. A Deeper Look at Nature

S2. Space and Time

S3. Spacetime and Gravity

S4. Building Blocks of the Universe

 

V. Stellar Alchemy

14. Our Star

15. Surveying the Stars

16. Star Birth

17. Star Stuff

18. The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard

 

VI. Galaxies and Beyond

19. Our Galaxy

20. Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology

21. Galaxy Evolution

22. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe

23. The Beginning of Time

 

VII. Life on Earth and Beyond

24. Life in the Universe

    Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition includes Voyager: SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook on CD-ROM at no extra charge, and an enhanced MasteringAstronomy™ online tutorial and assessment system. This edition’s expanded visual pedagogy features new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations that walk students through key processes and summarize the major concepts in each Part. Zoom-in figures also provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to its enhanced visuals, the text also features See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new set 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 Media Update Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the most widely adopted astronomy textbook.

     

     Offered with The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition is an unparalleled media package designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into lectures and independent study.  MasteringAstronomy™, the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides a library of assignable tutorial problems, a powerful gradebook for instructors, and a robust self-study area that includes quizzes, Interactive Tutorials, new Interactive Figures and Photos™, RSS news feeds that provide up-to-date articles from major astronomy news sources, a content-plus eBook, with enhanced functionality, write-to capability, live links, and more. For additional instructor media resources, The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM set includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book, 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.

  • 0321551389The Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy™, 5/E
    Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
    © 2009 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Package; 864 pages | Estimated Availability: 12/19/2008
    ISBN-10: 0321551389 | ISBN-13: 9780321551382
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    • 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.

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    Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
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    Built from the ground up on our new understanding of the universe, The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update retains all of the features that have made this text so popular, and includes updated supplements that enhance the book’s pedagogy to make it the most effective text in the one-semester astronomy market.

     

    This edition features optional quantitative reasoning boxes, basic equations throughout the text, new end-of-chapter problems, and a consolidated math appendix for professors who want to emphasize quantitative understanding in their course. Key figures have been annotated to guide student interpretation of difficult concepts. New two-page Cosmic Context illustrations  throughout the text, visually tie together key concepts from across chapters and put them in context, driving home main ideas in a meaningful way.

     

    The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update provides an unprecedented media package.  MasteringAstronomy™, the most easy-to-use, yet sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides both instructor-assigned homework as well as a self-study area with Bennett's popular Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Photos™, quizzes and more. An updated Essential Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images in the text for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos™  based on figures from the book, PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. The Astronomy Media Workbook, Fifth Edition is now updated to correlate with  MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager: SkyGazer v3.7 planetarium software.

     

  • 0321505689The Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update, 4/E
    Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
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