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The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Third Edition Media Update is now more accessible than ever for students in a one-semester astronomy class. The Third Edition Media Update includes all the hallmark and new features from the Third Edition as well as an enhanced media package, including an e-book, a new version of Voyager:SkyGazer planetarium software, additional interactive tutorials and interactive figures on The Astronomy Place website, and is automatically bundled with The Astronomy Media Workbook -- a collection of nearly 75 activities using The Astronomy Place tutorials and Voyager: SkyGazer, an enhanced and expanded version of the highly-acclaimed Cosmic Lecture Launcher in-class CD-ROM. Like the Third Edition, the Third Edition Media Update features a new an effective learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, callouts in the text, and highly-visual chapter summaries to make learning goals more explicit and to tie together important concepts. Key content has been consolidated and streamlined specifically for this one-semester course. The material is linked to everyday life to help students develop an appreciation for the scientific method and to see how physics and astronomy provide foundations for understanding their world.

目录

The Essential COSMIC PERSPECTIVE

PART I DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE

1 Our Place in the Universe

Learning Goals

1.1 Our Modern View of the Universe

1.2 The Scale of the Universe

1.3 Spaceship Earth

The Big Picture

Summary of Key Concepts

Exercises and Problems

Review Questions

Does It Make Sense?

Problems

Discussion Questions

Math Help and Exercises

Media Explorations

Basic Astronomical Objects, Units, and Motions

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: The Meaning of a Light-Year

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: Confusing Very Different Things

2 Discovering the Universe for Yourself

Learning Goals

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

The Big Picture

Summary of Key Concepts

Exercises and Problems

Review Questions

Does It Make Sense?

Problems

Discussion Questions

Media Explorations

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: The Moon Illusion

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS:What Makes the North Star Special?

SPECIAL TOPIC: HOW long is a day?

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: Stars in the Daytime

COMMON M~SCONCEPTmNS: The Cause of Seasons

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: High Noon

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: Sun Signs

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS:Moon in the Daytime and Stars on the Moon

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: The "Dark Side" of the Moon

3 The Science of Astronomy

Learning Goals

3.1 The Ancient Roots of Science

3.2 Ancient Greek Science

3.3 The Copernican Revolution

3.4 The Nature of Science

The Big Picture

Summary of Key Concepts

Exercises and Problems

Review Questions

Does It Make Sense?

Problems

Discussion Questions

Math Help and Exercises

Media Explorations

COMMON MISCONCEPTmNS: Columbus and A Flat Earth

SPEOAL TOPIC: Eratosthenes Measures Earth

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS: Eggs on the Equinox

SPEOAL TOPIC: Astrology

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PART II KEY CONCEPTS FOR aSTRONOMY

PART III LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS

PART IV STARS

PART V GALAXIES AND BEYOND

PART VI LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND

APPENDIXES

ASTRONOMY MEDIA WORKBOOK