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Authors
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Roger Freedman
Dr. Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in theoretical nuclear physics at Stanford University. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy and has been a pioneer in the use of classroom response systems and the “flipped” classroom model at UCSB. Roger holds a commercial pilot’s license and was an early organizer of the San Diego Comic-Con, now the world’s largest popular culture convention.
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Robert Geller
Robert M. Geller teaches and conducts research in astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also obtained his Ph.D.
His doctoral research was in observational cosmology under Professor Robert Antonucci. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, he is currently involved in a search for bursts of light that are predicted to occur when a supermassive black hole consumes a star. His other project, in biomedicine,
explores the use of magnetotactic bacteria to enhance the effectiveness of radiation therapy in treating cancer. Dr. Geller also has a strong emphasis on education, and he received the Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSB in 2003.His hobbies include rock climbing, and he built an unusual telescope
with lenses made of water.
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William J. Kaufmann
William J. Kaufman III was author of the first four editions of Universe. Born in New York City on December 27, 1942, he often visited the magnificent Hayden Planetarium as he was growing up. Dr. Kaufmann earned his bachelors degree magna cum laude in physics from Adelphi University in 1963, a masters degree in physics from Rutgers in 1965, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Indiana University in 1968. At 27 he became the youngest director of any major planetarium in the United States when he took the helm of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. During his career he also held positions at San Diego State University, UCLA, Caltech, and the University of Illinois. Throughout his professional life as a scientist and educator, Dr. Kaufmann worked to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the general public to help the public share in the advances of astronomy. A prolific author, his many books include Black Holes and Warped Spacetime, Relativity and Cosmology, The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity, Exploration of the Solar System, Planets and Moons, Stars and Nebulas, Galaxies and Quasars, and Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science. Dr. Kaufmann died in 1994.
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William J. Kaufmann
Table of Contents
I Introducing Astronomy
1 Astronomy and the Universe
1-1 Astronomy and the Scientific Method
1-2 The Solar System
1-3 Stars and Stellar Evolution
1-4 Galaxies and Cosmology
1-5 Angles and Angular Measure
Box 1-1: The Small-Angle Formula
1-6 Powers of Ten
Box 1-2: Arithmetic with Powers-of-Ten Notation
1-7 Astronomical Distances
Box 1-3: Units of Length, Time and Mass
1-8 The Adventure of Astronomy
Cosmic Connections: Sizes in the Universe
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Why Astronomy? Sandra M. Faber
2 Knowing the Heavens
2-1 Ancient Astronomy
2-2 Constellations
2-3 Motions of the Sky
2-4 The Celestial Sphere
2-5 The Seasons
Box 2-1: Celestial Coordinates
2-6 Precession
2-7 Time and Timekeeping
2-8 The Calendar
Box 2-2: Sidereal Time
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Why Astrology Is Not Science James Randi
3 Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon
3-1 Phases of the Moon
Box 3-1: Phases and Shadows
3-2 The Moon’s Rotation
3-3 Eclipses and the Line of Nodes
3-4 Lunar Eclipses
3-5 Solar Eclipses
3-6 Measuring the Earth
Box 3-2: Predicting Solar Eclipses
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Mark Hollabaugh
4 Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
4-1 Geocentric Models
4-2 Copernicus and Heliocentric Models
Box 4-1: Relating Synodic and Sidereal Periods
4-3 Tycho Brahe’s Observations
4-4 Kepler and the Orbits of the Planets
Box 4-2: Using Kepler’s Third Law
4-5 Galileo and the Telescope
4-6 Newton’s Laws of Motion
Box 4-3: Newton’s Laws in Everyday Life
4-7 Energy and Gravity
Box 4-4: Newton’s Form of Kepler’s Third Law
Cosmic Connections Universal Gravitation
4-8 Tides and the Moon
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
5 The Nature of Light
5-1 The Speed of Light
5-2 The Wave Nature of Light
5-3 Blackbody Radiation
Box 5-1: Temperatures and Temperature Scales
5-4 Wien’s Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann Law
Box 5-2: Using the Laws of Blackbody Radiation
5-5 The Particle Nature of Light
Box 5-3: Photons at the Supermarket
5-6 Kirchhoff’s Laws
Box 5-4: Why the Sky is Blue
5-7 Atomic Structure
Box 5-5: Atoms, the Periodic Table, and Isotopes
5-8 Spectral Lines and the Bohr Model
5-9 The Doppler Effect
Box 5-6: Applications of the Doppler Effect
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
6 Optics and Telescopes
6-1 Refracting Telescopes
Box 6-1 Magnification and Light-Gathering Power
6-2 Reflecting Telescopes
6-3 Angular Resolution
6-4 Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
6-5 Spectrographs
6-6 Radio Telescopes
6-7 Telescopes in Space
Cosmic Connections Telescopes Across the EM Spectrum
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
II Planets and Moons
7 Comparative Planetology I: Our Solar System
7-1 Terrestrial and Jovian Planets
Box 7-1: Average Density
7-2 Satellites of the Planets
7-3 The Evidence of Spectroscopy
7-4 Chemical Composition of the Planets
7-5 Asteroids, Trans-Neptunian Objects, and Comets
Box 7-2 Kinetic Energy, Temperature, and Whether Planets Have Atmospheres
7-6 Cratering and Impacts
7-7 Magnetic Fields and the Interiors of Planets
7-8 Solar System Diversity
Cosmic Connections Characteristics of the Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
8 Comparative Planetology II: The Origin of the Solar System
8-1 Models of Solar System Diversity
8-2 Abundances of the Elements
8-3 The Age of the Solar System
Box 8-1 Radioactive Dating
8-4 The Origin of the Solar System
8-5 Forming the Terrestrial Planets
8-6 Forming the Jovian Planets
8-7 Extrasolar Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Climate Change Misconceptions
9 The Living Earth
9-1 Earth’s Energy Sources
9-2 Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior
9-3 Plate Tectonics
9-4 Earth’s Magnetic Field
9-5 Earth’s Evolving Atmosphere
9-6 Circulation in Earth’s Atmosphere
Cosmic Connections Comparing Earth’s Atmosphere and Interior
9-7 Human Influence on Earth’s Biosphere
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
10 Our Barren Moon
10-1 The Moon’s Airless Surface
Cosmic Connections The Formation of the Craters and Maria on the Moon
10-2 Voyages to the Moon
10-3 The Moon’s Interior
Box 10-1 Calculating Tidal Forces
10-4 Moon Rocks
10-5 The Formation of the Moon
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
11 Mercury, Venus, and Mars: Earthlike yet Unique
11-1 Mercury, Venus, and Mars as Seen from Earth
11-2 The Curious Rotation of Mercury and Venus
11-3 Mercury’s Surface and Interior
11-4 Missions to Venus and Mars
11-5 Volcanoes and Craters on Venus and Mars
11-6 The Atmospheres of Venus and Mars
11-7 Climate Evolution on Venus and Mars
Cosmic Connections Evolution of Terrestrial Atmospheres
11-8 Searching for Ancient Martian Water
11-9 The Moons of Mars
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Reading the Red Planet John P. Grotzinger and Ashwin Vasavada
12 Jupiter and Saturn: Lords of the Planets
12-1 Jupiter and Saturn as Seen from Earth
12-2 Jupiter and Saturn’s Rotation and Structure
12-3 The Clouds of Jupiter and Saturn
12-4 Atmospheric Motions on Jupiter and Saturn
12-5 Probing Jupiter’s Atmosphere
12-6 The Rocky Cores of Jupiter and Saturn
12-7 The Magnetic Fields of Jupiter and Saturn
12-8 Discovering Saturn’s Rings
12-9 The Composition of Saturn’s and Jupiter’s Rings
10-10 The Structure of Saturn’s Rings
Cosmic Connections Planetary Rings and the Roche Limit
12-11 Rings and Shepherd Satellites
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
13 Jupiter and Saturn’s Satellites of Fire and Ice
13-1 Jupiter’s Galilean Satellites as Seen from Earth
13-2 Sizes, Masses, and Densities of the Galilean Satellites
13-3 Formation of the Galilean Satellites
13-4 Io’s Active Volcanoes
13-5 Electric Currents in Io
13-6 Europa’s Icy Crust
13-7 Cratered Ganymede and Callisto
13-8 Exploring Titan’s Hydrocarbon Atmosphere
13-9 Jupiter’s Swarm of Small Satellites
13-10 Saturn’s Other Icy Satellites
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
14 Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt: Remote Worlds
14-1 Discovering Uranus and Neptune
14-2 Weather and Seasons on Uranus
14-3 Cloud Patterns on Neptune
14-4 Inside Uranus and Neptune
14-5 Magnetic Fields of Uranus and Neptune
14-6 The Rings of Uranus and Neptune
Cosmic Connections The Outer Planets: A Comparison
14-7 Uranus’s Satellites
14-8 Neptune’s Satellites
14-9 Pluto and Its Satellites
14-10 Trans-Neptunian Objects
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
15 Vagabonds of the Solar System
15-1 The Discovery of the Asteroids
15-2 Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt
15-3 The Nature of Asteroids
15-4 Impacts on Earth
Cosmic Connections A Killer Asteroid
15-5 Classifying Meteorites
15-6 Meteorites and Our Origins
15-7 Comets
15-8 Comet Origins and Meteor Showers
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Scott Sheppard
III Stars and Stellar Evolution
16 Our Star, the Sun
16-1 Thermonuclear Energy
Cosmic Connections Proton-Proton Chain
Box 16-1 Converting Mass into Energy
16-2 A Model of the Sun
16-3 Solar Seismology
16-4 Solar Neutrinos
16-5 The Photosphere
16-6 The Chromosphere
16-7 The Corona
16-8 Sunspots
16-9 The Sunspot Cycle
16-10 The Active Sun
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
17 The Nature of the Stars
17-1 Stellar Distances and Parallax
Box 17-1 Stellar Motions
17-2 apparent Brightness and Luminosity
Box 17-2 Luminosity, Distance, and Apparent Brightness
17-3 The Magnitude Scale
Box 17-3 Apparent Magnitude and Absolute Magnitude
17-4 Star Colors and Temperatures
17-5 Spectral Classes
Box 17-4 Stellar Radii, Luminosities, and Surface Temperatures
17-6 The Sizes of Stars
17-7 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
17-8 Spectroscopic Parallax
17-9 Binary Stars and Stellar Masses
Cosmic Connections The main Sequence and Masses
17-10 Spectroscopy and Close Binaries
17-11 Eclipsing Binaries
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
18 The Birth of Stars
18-1 Modeling Stellar Evolution
18-2 The Interstellar Medium
Box 18-1 Fluorescent Lights
18-3 Protostars and Dark Nebulae
18-4 Reaching the Main Sequence
18-5 Mass Ejection and Accretion
18-6 Young Stars and H II Regions
18-7 Giant Molecular Clouds
18-8 Supernovae and Star Birth
Cosmic Connections How Stars are Born
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
19 Stellar Evolution: On and After the Main Sequence
19-1 Evolution on the Main Sequence
Box 19-1 Compressing and Expanding Gases
19-2 Red Giants
Box 19-2 Main-Sequence Lifetimes
19-3 Helium Fusion
Cosmic Connections Helium Fusion in a Red Giant
19-4 Star Clusters and Stellar Evolution
19-5 Population I and II Stars
19-6 Pulsating Stars
19-7 Mass Transfer in Close Binaries
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
20 Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars
20-1 A Second Red-Giant Phase
20-2 Drudge-up and Carbon Stars
20-3 Planetary Nebulae
20-4 White Dwarfs
20-5 The Creation of Heavy Elements
Cosmic Connections Our Sun: The Next Eight Million Years
20-6 Core-Collapse Supernovae
20-7 Supernova 1987A
20-8 Detecting Supernova Neutrinos
20-9 White Dwarfs and Supernovae
20-10 Supernova Remnants
20-11 Neutrons and Neutron Stars
20-12 Novae and X-ray Bursters
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
21 Black Holes
21-1 The Special Theory of Relativity
Box 21-1 Time Dilation and Length Contraction
21-2 The General Theory of Relativity
21-3 Black Holes in Binary Stems
21-4 Detecting Gravitational Waves
21-5 Gamma-Ray Busters
21-6 Supermassive Black Holes
21-7 The Event Horizon
Box 21-2 The Schwarzschild Radius
21-8 Mass, Charge, and Spin
Cosmic Connections Black Hole “Urban Legends”
21-9 Falling into a Black Hole
21-10 Evaporating Black Holes
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
IV Galaxies and Cosmology
22 Our Galaxy
22-1 Our Place in the Galaxy
22-2 The Galaxy’s Shape and Size
22-3 Spiral Arms
Box 22-1 Spin-Flip Transitions in Medicine
22-4 The Sun’s Orbit and Dark Matter
22-5 Density Waves
Cosmic Connections Stars in the Milky Way
22-6 At the Center of the Galaxy
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
23 Galaxies
23-1 Island Universe
23-2 The Distances to Galaxies
Box 23-1 Cepheids and Supernovae as Indicators of Distance
23-3 Classifying Galaxies
23-4 The Distance Ladder
23-5 The Hubble Law
Box 23-2 The Hubble Law and the Relativistic Redshift
23-6 Clusters and Superclusters
23-7 Colliding Galaxies
Cosmic Connections When Galaxies Collide
23-8 Dark Matter in the Universe
23-9 The Evolution of the Galaxies
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
24 Quasars and Active Galaxies
24-1 Ultraluminous Galactic Nuclei
24-2 Black Holes as “Central Engines”
24-3 Accretion Disks and Jets
24-4 A Unified Model
Cosmic Connections Accretion Disks
24-4 Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Box 24-1: The Diversity of AGN
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
25 Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
25-1 The Dark Night Sky
25-2 The Expanding Universe
Cosmic Connections “Urban Legends” about the Expanding Universe
25-3 The Big Bang
25-4 The Cosmic Microwave Background
25-5 The Universe Before Recombination
25-6 The Shape of the Universe
25-7 Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
25-8 Primordial Sound Waves
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Dark Forces at Work David Appell
26 Exploring the Early Universe
26-1 Cosmic Inflation
26-2 The Fundamental Forces and Symmetry Breaking
26-3 Matter, Antimatter, and the Uncertainty Principle
26-4 Matter-Antimatter Annihilation
26-5 Relics of the Primordial Fireball
26-6 The First Stars and Galaxies
Cosmic Connections The History of the Universe
26-7 String Theory and the Dimensions of Spacetime
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Making Sense of Modern Cosmology P. James E. Peebles
27 The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
27-1 Building Blocks of Life
27-2 Life in the Solar System
27-3 Meteorites from Mars
27-4 The Drake Equation
Cosmic Connections Habitable Zones for Life
27-5 Radio Searches for Civilizations
27-6 Searches for Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay A Biologist’s View of Astrobiology Kevin W. Plaxco
Appendices
1. The Planets: Orbital Data
2. The Planets: Physical Data
3. Satellites of the Planets
4. The Nearest Stars
5. The Visually Brightest Stars
6. Some Important Astronomical Quantities
7. Some Important Physical Constants
8. Some Useful Mathematics
Glossary
Answers to Selected Questions
Index
Northern Hemisphere Star Charts
Product Updates
Universe, 11e is now supported in Achieve. Automatically graded homework problems contain hints, answer-specific feedback, and solutions to ensure that students find the help they need. Fully loaded with our interactive e-book and all student and instructor resources. Achieve has a variety of assessments, videos, and animations aligned with chapters of the text. LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
New Interactives and Animations help students visualize and interpret concepts, now available with assessments in Sapling Plus for assignment before class or for additional study or homework.
New Guest Essays
Seven New Guest Essays on topics including multi-messenger astronomy, neutron star mergers, and climate change (Chapters 8, 11, 21, 23, 24, and 26)
Science Updates:
Chapter 3: New photos of the 2017 total solar eclipse
Chapter 8: Includes a revised explanation of the formation of the Solar System to reflect our current understanding; New techniques for detecting exoplanets and determining habitability
Chapter 9: Enhanced emphasis on climate change
Chapter 11: Updated to reflect Mars rover discoveries and discovery of water on Mars; includes information on upcoming 2020 Mars rover
Chapter 12: New photos from the Juno mission
Chapter 13: Updated information on proposed missions to outer planets
Chapter 14: Pluto new images and new understanding of the surface Chapter 15: Rosetta and Dawn missions, new Ceres (asteroid) and 67P comet photos
Chapter 21: Consolidated and clarified information on neutron stars and stellar remnants; Added most recent LIGO updates for gravitational waves; Updated to our current understanding of heavy element production
Chapter 27: Enhanced discussion of exoplanets and habitability; Added new targets for astrobiology research
Authors
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Roger Freedman
Dr. Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in theoretical nuclear physics at Stanford University. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy and has been a pioneer in the use of classroom response systems and the “flipped” classroom model at UCSB. Roger holds a commercial pilot’s license and was an early organizer of the San Diego Comic-Con, now the world’s largest popular culture convention.
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Robert Geller
Robert M. Geller teaches and conducts research in astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also obtained his Ph.D.
His doctoral research was in observational cosmology under Professor Robert Antonucci. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, he is currently involved in a search for bursts of light that are predicted to occur when a supermassive black hole consumes a star. His other project, in biomedicine,
explores the use of magnetotactic bacteria to enhance the effectiveness of radiation therapy in treating cancer. Dr. Geller also has a strong emphasis on education, and he received the Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSB in 2003.His hobbies include rock climbing, and he built an unusual telescope
with lenses made of water.
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William J. Kaufmann
William J. Kaufman III was author of the first four editions of Universe. Born in New York City on December 27, 1942, he often visited the magnificent Hayden Planetarium as he was growing up. Dr. Kaufmann earned his bachelors degree magna cum laude in physics from Adelphi University in 1963, a masters degree in physics from Rutgers in 1965, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Indiana University in 1968. At 27 he became the youngest director of any major planetarium in the United States when he took the helm of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. During his career he also held positions at San Diego State University, UCLA, Caltech, and the University of Illinois. Throughout his professional life as a scientist and educator, Dr. Kaufmann worked to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the general public to help the public share in the advances of astronomy. A prolific author, his many books include Black Holes and Warped Spacetime, Relativity and Cosmology, The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity, Exploration of the Solar System, Planets and Moons, Stars and Nebulas, Galaxies and Quasars, and Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science. Dr. Kaufmann died in 1994.
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William J. Kaufmann
Table of Contents
I Introducing Astronomy
1 Astronomy and the Universe
1-1 Astronomy and the Scientific Method
1-2 The Solar System
1-3 Stars and Stellar Evolution
1-4 Galaxies and Cosmology
1-5 Angles and Angular Measure
Box 1-1: The Small-Angle Formula
1-6 Powers of Ten
Box 1-2: Arithmetic with Powers-of-Ten Notation
1-7 Astronomical Distances
Box 1-3: Units of Length, Time and Mass
1-8 The Adventure of Astronomy
Cosmic Connections: Sizes in the Universe
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Why Astronomy? Sandra M. Faber
2 Knowing the Heavens
2-1 Ancient Astronomy
2-2 Constellations
2-3 Motions of the Sky
2-4 The Celestial Sphere
2-5 The Seasons
Box 2-1: Celestial Coordinates
2-6 Precession
2-7 Time and Timekeeping
2-8 The Calendar
Box 2-2: Sidereal Time
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Why Astrology Is Not Science James Randi
3 Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon
3-1 Phases of the Moon
Box 3-1: Phases and Shadows
3-2 The Moon’s Rotation
3-3 Eclipses and the Line of Nodes
3-4 Lunar Eclipses
3-5 Solar Eclipses
3-6 Measuring the Earth
Box 3-2: Predicting Solar Eclipses
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Mark Hollabaugh
4 Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
4-1 Geocentric Models
4-2 Copernicus and Heliocentric Models
Box 4-1: Relating Synodic and Sidereal Periods
4-3 Tycho Brahe’s Observations
4-4 Kepler and the Orbits of the Planets
Box 4-2: Using Kepler’s Third Law
4-5 Galileo and the Telescope
4-6 Newton’s Laws of Motion
Box 4-3: Newton’s Laws in Everyday Life
4-7 Energy and Gravity
Box 4-4: Newton’s Form of Kepler’s Third Law
Cosmic Connections Universal Gravitation
4-8 Tides and the Moon
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
5 The Nature of Light
5-1 The Speed of Light
5-2 The Wave Nature of Light
5-3 Blackbody Radiation
Box 5-1: Temperatures and Temperature Scales
5-4 Wien’s Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann Law
Box 5-2: Using the Laws of Blackbody Radiation
5-5 The Particle Nature of Light
Box 5-3: Photons at the Supermarket
5-6 Kirchhoff’s Laws
Box 5-4: Why the Sky is Blue
5-7 Atomic Structure
Box 5-5: Atoms, the Periodic Table, and Isotopes
5-8 Spectral Lines and the Bohr Model
5-9 The Doppler Effect
Box 5-6: Applications of the Doppler Effect
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
6 Optics and Telescopes
6-1 Refracting Telescopes
Box 6-1 Magnification and Light-Gathering Power
6-2 Reflecting Telescopes
6-3 Angular Resolution
6-4 Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
6-5 Spectrographs
6-6 Radio Telescopes
6-7 Telescopes in Space
Cosmic Connections Telescopes Across the EM Spectrum
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
II Planets and Moons
7 Comparative Planetology I: Our Solar System
7-1 Terrestrial and Jovian Planets
Box 7-1: Average Density
7-2 Satellites of the Planets
7-3 The Evidence of Spectroscopy
7-4 Chemical Composition of the Planets
7-5 Asteroids, Trans-Neptunian Objects, and Comets
Box 7-2 Kinetic Energy, Temperature, and Whether Planets Have Atmospheres
7-6 Cratering and Impacts
7-7 Magnetic Fields and the Interiors of Planets
7-8 Solar System Diversity
Cosmic Connections Characteristics of the Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
8 Comparative Planetology II: The Origin of the Solar System
8-1 Models of Solar System Diversity
8-2 Abundances of the Elements
8-3 The Age of the Solar System
Box 8-1 Radioactive Dating
8-4 The Origin of the Solar System
8-5 Forming the Terrestrial Planets
8-6 Forming the Jovian Planets
8-7 Extrasolar Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Climate Change Misconceptions
9 The Living Earth
9-1 Earth’s Energy Sources
9-2 Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior
9-3 Plate Tectonics
9-4 Earth’s Magnetic Field
9-5 Earth’s Evolving Atmosphere
9-6 Circulation in Earth’s Atmosphere
Cosmic Connections Comparing Earth’s Atmosphere and Interior
9-7 Human Influence on Earth’s Biosphere
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
10 Our Barren Moon
10-1 The Moon’s Airless Surface
Cosmic Connections The Formation of the Craters and Maria on the Moon
10-2 Voyages to the Moon
10-3 The Moon’s Interior
Box 10-1 Calculating Tidal Forces
10-4 Moon Rocks
10-5 The Formation of the Moon
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
11 Mercury, Venus, and Mars: Earthlike yet Unique
11-1 Mercury, Venus, and Mars as Seen from Earth
11-2 The Curious Rotation of Mercury and Venus
11-3 Mercury’s Surface and Interior
11-4 Missions to Venus and Mars
11-5 Volcanoes and Craters on Venus and Mars
11-6 The Atmospheres of Venus and Mars
11-7 Climate Evolution on Venus and Mars
Cosmic Connections Evolution of Terrestrial Atmospheres
11-8 Searching for Ancient Martian Water
11-9 The Moons of Mars
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Reading the Red Planet John P. Grotzinger and Ashwin Vasavada
12 Jupiter and Saturn: Lords of the Planets
12-1 Jupiter and Saturn as Seen from Earth
12-2 Jupiter and Saturn’s Rotation and Structure
12-3 The Clouds of Jupiter and Saturn
12-4 Atmospheric Motions on Jupiter and Saturn
12-5 Probing Jupiter’s Atmosphere
12-6 The Rocky Cores of Jupiter and Saturn
12-7 The Magnetic Fields of Jupiter and Saturn
12-8 Discovering Saturn’s Rings
12-9 The Composition of Saturn’s and Jupiter’s Rings
10-10 The Structure of Saturn’s Rings
Cosmic Connections Planetary Rings and the Roche Limit
12-11 Rings and Shepherd Satellites
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
13 Jupiter and Saturn’s Satellites of Fire and Ice
13-1 Jupiter’s Galilean Satellites as Seen from Earth
13-2 Sizes, Masses, and Densities of the Galilean Satellites
13-3 Formation of the Galilean Satellites
13-4 Io’s Active Volcanoes
13-5 Electric Currents in Io
13-6 Europa’s Icy Crust
13-7 Cratered Ganymede and Callisto
13-8 Exploring Titan’s Hydrocarbon Atmosphere
13-9 Jupiter’s Swarm of Small Satellites
13-10 Saturn’s Other Icy Satellites
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
14 Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt: Remote Worlds
14-1 Discovering Uranus and Neptune
14-2 Weather and Seasons on Uranus
14-3 Cloud Patterns on Neptune
14-4 Inside Uranus and Neptune
14-5 Magnetic Fields of Uranus and Neptune
14-6 The Rings of Uranus and Neptune
Cosmic Connections The Outer Planets: A Comparison
14-7 Uranus’s Satellites
14-8 Neptune’s Satellites
14-9 Pluto and Its Satellites
14-10 Trans-Neptunian Objects
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
15 Vagabonds of the Solar System
15-1 The Discovery of the Asteroids
15-2 Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt
15-3 The Nature of Asteroids
15-4 Impacts on Earth
Cosmic Connections A Killer Asteroid
15-5 Classifying Meteorites
15-6 Meteorites and Our Origins
15-7 Comets
15-8 Comet Origins and Meteor Showers
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Scott Sheppard
III Stars and Stellar Evolution
16 Our Star, the Sun
16-1 Thermonuclear Energy
Cosmic Connections Proton-Proton Chain
Box 16-1 Converting Mass into Energy
16-2 A Model of the Sun
16-3 Solar Seismology
16-4 Solar Neutrinos
16-5 The Photosphere
16-6 The Chromosphere
16-7 The Corona
16-8 Sunspots
16-9 The Sunspot Cycle
16-10 The Active Sun
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17 The Nature of the Stars
17-1 Stellar Distances and Parallax
Box 17-1 Stellar Motions
17-2 apparent Brightness and Luminosity
Box 17-2 Luminosity, Distance, and Apparent Brightness
17-3 The Magnitude Scale
Box 17-3 Apparent Magnitude and Absolute Magnitude
17-4 Star Colors and Temperatures
17-5 Spectral Classes
Box 17-4 Stellar Radii, Luminosities, and Surface Temperatures
17-6 The Sizes of Stars
17-7 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
17-8 Spectroscopic Parallax
17-9 Binary Stars and Stellar Masses
Cosmic Connections The main Sequence and Masses
17-10 Spectroscopy and Close Binaries
17-11 Eclipsing Binaries
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18 The Birth of Stars
18-1 Modeling Stellar Evolution
18-2 The Interstellar Medium
Box 18-1 Fluorescent Lights
18-3 Protostars and Dark Nebulae
18-4 Reaching the Main Sequence
18-5 Mass Ejection and Accretion
18-6 Young Stars and H II Regions
18-7 Giant Molecular Clouds
18-8 Supernovae and Star Birth
Cosmic Connections How Stars are Born
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19 Stellar Evolution: On and After the Main Sequence
19-1 Evolution on the Main Sequence
Box 19-1 Compressing and Expanding Gases
19-2 Red Giants
Box 19-2 Main-Sequence Lifetimes
19-3 Helium Fusion
Cosmic Connections Helium Fusion in a Red Giant
19-4 Star Clusters and Stellar Evolution
19-5 Population I and II Stars
19-6 Pulsating Stars
19-7 Mass Transfer in Close Binaries
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20 Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars
20-1 A Second Red-Giant Phase
20-2 Drudge-up and Carbon Stars
20-3 Planetary Nebulae
20-4 White Dwarfs
20-5 The Creation of Heavy Elements
Cosmic Connections Our Sun: The Next Eight Million Years
20-6 Core-Collapse Supernovae
20-7 Supernova 1987A
20-8 Detecting Supernova Neutrinos
20-9 White Dwarfs and Supernovae
20-10 Supernova Remnants
20-11 Neutrons and Neutron Stars
20-12 Novae and X-ray Bursters
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21 Black Holes
21-1 The Special Theory of Relativity
Box 21-1 Time Dilation and Length Contraction
21-2 The General Theory of Relativity
21-3 Black Holes in Binary Stems
21-4 Detecting Gravitational Waves
21-5 Gamma-Ray Busters
21-6 Supermassive Black Holes
21-7 The Event Horizon
Box 21-2 The Schwarzschild Radius
21-8 Mass, Charge, and Spin
Cosmic Connections Black Hole “Urban Legends”
21-9 Falling into a Black Hole
21-10 Evaporating Black Holes
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Questions and Activities
IV Galaxies and Cosmology
22 Our Galaxy
22-1 Our Place in the Galaxy
22-2 The Galaxy’s Shape and Size
22-3 Spiral Arms
Box 22-1 Spin-Flip Transitions in Medicine
22-4 The Sun’s Orbit and Dark Matter
22-5 Density Waves
Cosmic Connections Stars in the Milky Way
22-6 At the Center of the Galaxy
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Questions and Activities
23 Galaxies
23-1 Island Universe
23-2 The Distances to Galaxies
Box 23-1 Cepheids and Supernovae as Indicators of Distance
23-3 Classifying Galaxies
23-4 The Distance Ladder
23-5 The Hubble Law
Box 23-2 The Hubble Law and the Relativistic Redshift
23-6 Clusters and Superclusters
23-7 Colliding Galaxies
Cosmic Connections When Galaxies Collide
23-8 Dark Matter in the Universe
23-9 The Evolution of the Galaxies
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Questions and Activities
24 Quasars and Active Galaxies
24-1 Ultraluminous Galactic Nuclei
24-2 Black Holes as “Central Engines”
24-3 Accretion Disks and Jets
24-4 A Unified Model
Cosmic Connections Accretion Disks
24-4 Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Box 24-1: The Diversity of AGN
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
25 Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
25-1 The Dark Night Sky
25-2 The Expanding Universe
Cosmic Connections “Urban Legends” about the Expanding Universe
25-3 The Big Bang
25-4 The Cosmic Microwave Background
25-5 The Universe Before Recombination
25-6 The Shape of the Universe
25-7 Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
25-8 Primordial Sound Waves
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Dark Forces at Work David Appell
26 Exploring the Early Universe
26-1 Cosmic Inflation
26-2 The Fundamental Forces and Symmetry Breaking
26-3 Matter, Antimatter, and the Uncertainty Principle
26-4 Matter-Antimatter Annihilation
26-5 Relics of the Primordial Fireball
26-6 The First Stars and Galaxies
Cosmic Connections The History of the Universe
26-7 String Theory and the Dimensions of Spacetime
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Scientific American Article Making Sense of Modern Cosmology P. James E. Peebles
27 The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
27-1 Building Blocks of Life
27-2 Life in the Solar System
27-3 Meteorites from Mars
27-4 The Drake Equation
Cosmic Connections Habitable Zones for Life
27-5 Radio Searches for Civilizations
27-6 Searches for Planets
Key Words and Ideas
Questions and Activities
Guest Essay A Biologist’s View of Astrobiology Kevin W. Plaxco
Appendices
1. The Planets: Orbital Data
2. The Planets: Physical Data
3. Satellites of the Planets
4. The Nearest Stars
5. The Visually Brightest Stars
6. Some Important Astronomical Quantities
7. Some Important Physical Constants
8. Some Useful Mathematics
Glossary
Answers to Selected Questions
Index
Northern Hemisphere Star Charts
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Chapter 13: Updated information on proposed missions to outer planets
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