Universe: Solar System / Edition 4

by Roger Freedman, William J. Kaufmann

Overview

Universe: The Solar System, Fourth Edition, contains chapters from the following sections of Freedman, Kaufmann, and Geller's Universe, Ninth Edition:
Introducing Astronomy
Planets and Moons
 
Plus the following chapters:
Our Star: The Sun
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429240161
Publisher:	Freeman, W. H. & Company
Publication date:	01/28/2010
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

I.  Introducing Astronomy
1 Astronomy and the Universe 
Guest Essay: Why Astronomy? Sandra M. Faber 
2 Knowing the Heavens 
Guest Essay: Why Astrology Is Not Science James Randi 
3 Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon 
Guest Essay: Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Mark Hollabaugh 
4 Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets 
5 The Nature of Light 
6 Optics and Telescopes
 
II. Planets and Moons
7 Comparative Planetology I: Our Solar System 
8 Comparative Planetology II: The Origin of Our Solar System 
Scientific American: Dangling a COROT, Alexander Hellemans 
9 The Living Earth 
10 Our Barren Moon 
11 Mercury, Venus, and Mars: Earthlike yet Unique 
Scientific American: Father of Spirit and Opportunity, David Appell 
12 Jupiter and Saturn: Lords of the Planets 
13 Jupiter and Saturn’s Satellites of Fire and Ice 
14 Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt: Remote Worlds 
15 Vagabonds of the Solar System 
Guest Essay: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Scott Sheppard 
 
III. Stars and Stella Evolution
16 Our Star, the Sun 
 
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life