Understanding Our Universe 3rd ed 2018 by Stacy Palen et al torrent

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TITLE: Understanding Our Universe, 3rd edition (2018)
AUTHOR: Stacy Palen, Laura Kay, George Blumenthal
ISBN-13: 9780393631715
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DESCRIPTION: Students learn best by doing. Research shows that active learning supports deeper, long-term understanding. The 3rd edition text and media package gives students more opportunities to interact with astronomy—both in real life and online. The new edition provides all the resources you need to make it easy to incorporate active learning into the classroom.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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PART I : Introduction to Astronomy
1. Our Place in the Universe
2. Patterns in the Sky - Motions of Earth and the Moon
3. Laws of Motion
4. Light and Telescopes
PART II : The Solar System
5. The Formation of Stars and Planets
6. Terrestrial Worlds in the Inner Solar System
7. Atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars
8. The Giant Planets
9. Small Bodies of the Solar System
PART III : Stars and Stellar Evolution
10. Measuring the Stars
11. Our Star: The Sun
12. Evolution of Low-Mass Stars
13. Evolution of High-Mass Stars
PART IV : Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology
14. Measuring Galaxies
15. Our Galaxy: The Milky Way
16. The Evolution of the Universe
17. Formation of Structure
18. Life in the Universe
appendixes
glossary
answers
index