In Quest of the UniverseUnderstanding Life, Third Editionis intended for non-major biology students.--General Biology (non-majors)-Principles of Biology |
Contents
Prologue The Quest Ahead xxiv | 5 |
CHAPTER | 11 |
An EarthCentered Universe | 12 |
CHAPTER | 38 |
A SunCentered System | 40 |
Windows to the Universe | 130 |
The EarthMoon System | 162 |
CHAPTER | 198 |
Measuring the Speed of Light 105 Tycho Brahes Nova | 468 |
Evidence for the Wave Model of Light 106 Nucleosynthesis | 481 |
Evidence for the Particle Model of Light 117 The Pulsar in SN1987A? | 487 |
Radio Waves from Space 151 Black Holes in Science Science Fiction and Nonsense | 502 |
The Milky Way Galaxy | 510 |
Measuring the Ages of the Earth and Moon 196 The ShapleyCurtis Debate | 517 |
A Barred Spiral Galaxy? | 530 |
Replica of the Solar System 11 | 538 |
The Jovian Planets | 282 |
Pluto and Solar System Debris | 324 |
Leap Year and the Calendar 23 NineteenthCentury Feminist | 337 |
Copernicus and His Times 43 Hit by a Meteorite? | 348 |
CHAPTER | 354 |
The Sun | 358 |
Galileo Galilei 71 Fission and Fusion Power on Earth | 367 |
Measuring the Properties of Stars | 392 |
Travel to the Moon 78 Henrietta Leavitt | 418 |
Interstellar Matter and Star Formation | 424 |
Albert Einstein 90 Holes in the Heavens? | 428 |
The Lives and Deaths of LowMass Stars | 446 |
A Diversity of Galaxies | 540 |
The Discovery of the Asteroids 212 Edwin Hubble | 545 |
Our Changing View of Venus 249 Milton Humason Mule DriverAstronomer | 553 |
CHAPTER | 576 |
Shepherd Moons 309 Cosmological Redshift | 586 |
The Mission to Eros 331 The Early Universe | 593 |
Appendixes | 631 |
Glossary 635 | 650 |
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Photo Credits | 668 |
Common terms and phrases
acceleration ADVANCING THE MODEL angle angular apparent magnitude arcseconds asteroids astronomers astronomical unit atmosphere atoms axis binary bright calculate carbon causes celestial center of mass Chapter cloud color comet constellation Copernicus core craters density diameter disk distance Doppler Doppler effect Earth electron emitted energy equator exerted explain formed Galaxy Galileo gravitational force Hubble Space Telescope hydrogen infrared Jupiter Jupiter's Kepler's laws Kepler's third law kilometers lunar magnetic field Mars measure Mercury Mercury's meteorite meters mirror molecules Moon Moon's motion moving nebula Newton's laws object observations parallax parsecs particles path period photograph planet planetary Pluto pole predicted Ptolemaic model radiation relative result rings rock rotation satellites Saturn seen semimajor axis shows solar eclipse solar system space spacecraft spectrum speed sphere star's stars Sun's surface telescope temperature theory tides tion Uranus velocity Venus visible light wavelength