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

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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:

Overview of the Solar System
Understanding the Lunar Phases
Understanding Solar and Lunar Eclipses
Understanding the Seasons
Evidence that the Earth is Round
Models of Our Solar System
Laws of Motion in Astronomy
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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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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