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Challenges of Astronomy: Hands-on Experiments for the Sky and Laboratory

Autor W. Schlosser, T. Schmidt-Kaler, E.F. Milone
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 dec 2011
Challenges of Astronomy in a unique collection of thirty astronomy experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology. Each of the experiments contains one or more challenges for the reader. The progression is from the Earth outward through the solar system to the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the sky, Stonehenge as a stoneage abacus, determination of the size of the Earth, the distance of the Moon and planets, Kepler's laws, planetary mass and density, the temperatures and atmospheres of planets, the speed of light, the distances of stars, the nature of the quiet and active Sun, photometry and spectroscopy, stars clusters and variable stars, fundamental properties of stars, and Olber's paradox.
Challenges of Astronomy is a translation and extensive revision of a German-language resource book for secondary school teachers of science. Physical science teachers will find this edition too a rich resource of experiments to their own milieus, but it is suitable for many other English-language readers too, from northern and southern hemisphere locations. The beginning experiments are suitable for bright high school and non-science major university students while the later experiments which offer increasingly difficult challenges are more suitable for sciences majors. Amateurs with a variety of skills will find this hands-on book entertaining, informative, and useful.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781461287698
ISBN-10: 1461287693
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: VIII, 236 p.
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

Public țintă

Lower undergraduate

Cuprins

1. The Vault of Heaven.- 2. Astronomy of the Spheres.- 3. Early Astronomy.- 4. The Earth’s Radius.- 5. The Distance of the Moon.- 6. Measuring Lunar Mountains.- 7. The Phases of Venus.- 8. Saturn’s Parallax and Motion.- 9. The Astronomical Unit.- 10. The Moon’s Orbit.- 11. The Galilean Moons of Jupiter.- 12. Planetary Packaging: Mean Densities.- 13. Earth Satellites.- 14. Orbits and Space Travel.- 15. Photography of the Sun and Stars.- 16. The Speed and Color of Light.- 17. Planetary Surface Temperatures.- 18. Planetary Atmospheres.- 19. Atmospheric Effects on Starlight and Sunlight.- 20. Sources of Cosmic Radiation.- 21. Optical Aids and Their Limitations.- 22. Laser Light and Speckle Interferometry.- 23. Photometry.- 24. Spectral Analysis.- 25. The Doppler Effect.- 26. Binary Star Systems.- 27. Fundamental Properties of Stars.- 28. The Face of a Star: The Sun.- 29. Star Clusters.- 30. Olbers’s Paradox: Cosmology and the Night Sky.- Appendices.- A — Coordinate Systems and Spherical Astronomy.- B — A Brief Summary of Error Analysis.- C — Constructing a Cross-Staff.- D — Julian Day Number Table.- E — Planetary Position Tables.- F — Photographic Targets.- G — Topics Guide.