An Introduction to Basic Astronomy Concepts (Black and White Edition): A Visual Tour of Our Solar System and Beyond (with Space Photos) - Softcover

McMullen Ph.D., Chris

 
9781478169727: An Introduction to Basic Astronomy Concepts (Black and White Edition): A Visual Tour of Our Solar System and Beyond (with Space Photos)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478169729 ISBN 13: 9781478169727
Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Also available in full-color in paperback (ISBN 978-1478169383) and as an e-book. Note that this paperback edition is black and white.

This book provides a highly visual introduction to a variety of basic astronomy concepts:

  1. Overview of the Solar System
  2. Understanding the Lunar Phases
  3. Understanding Solar and Lunar Eclipses
  4. Understanding the Seasons
  5. Evidence that the Earth is Round
  6. Models of Our Solar System
  7. Laws of Motion in Astronomy
  8. Beyond Our Solar System
This edition is black and white. This book features numerous NASA space photos. (NASA did not participate in the writing or publication of this eBook.) Many diagrams, like the heliocentric and geocentric models or explaining the phases of the moon, were constructed by combining together NASA space photos instead of simply drawing circles.

The content is suitable for a general interest audience, as well asthose who may be learning astronomy and are looking for somesupplemental instruction that is highly visual and focused on a varietyof fundamental concepts.

Teachers who purchase one copy of this book or borrow one copy of this book from a library may reproduce selected pages for the purpose of teaching astronomy concepts to their own students.

This book is also available in a full-color edition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author, Chris McMullen, is a physics and astronomy instructor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Oklahoma State University in phenomenological high-energy physics (particle physics). His doctoral dissertation was on the collider phenomenology of superstring-inspired large extra dimensions, a field in which he has coauthored several papers.

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Verlag
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478169729
ISBN 13 
9781478169727
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
186
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