Active Learning Astronomy for Astronomy: The Evolving Universe
Active Learning Astronomy for <I>Astronomy: The Evolving Universe</I>
9th Edition
Michael Zeilik, University of New Mexico
July 2002
Unavailable - out of print June 2015
Paperback
9780521529013
Out of Print
Paperback
This student supplement to Astronomy: The Evolving Universe provides thirty-two hands-on activities for students of astronomy. Highly focused on central concepts in astronomy, each activity is linked to a section of the main text. The activities are designed to take 30 or 40 minutes of class time, and most require no special materials or extra resources. These class-tested activities form a key part of the innovative teaching strategies developed by Michael Zeilik.
- Companion to ninth edition of the groundbreaking textbook, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe (0521800900)
- Contains tailor made student projects
- Michael Zeilik is the authoritative word on astronomy education
Reviews & endorsements
'This book is easy to read and is a good introduction to popular astronomy.' Astronomy Now
Product details
July 2002Paperback
9780521529013
66 pages
210 × 274 × 5 mm
0.175kg
Unavailable - out of print June 2015
Table of Contents
- Foreword for the student
- 1. Angular size and distance (cosmic distances)
- 2. Angular speed and motion (heavenly motions)
- 3. Major motions of the planets (heavenly motions)
- 4. Retrograde motion of Mars (heavenly motions)
- 5. Sunrise points (heavenly motions)
- 6. Solar system models (scientific models)
- 7. Kepler's third law (heavenly motions)
- 8. Pluto and Charon (heavenly motions)
- 9. The Doppler shift
- 10. Weight
- 11. Newton's Gravitation
- 12. Continuous spectra (light & spectra)
- 13. Stellar temperatures, colors and spectra (light & spectra)
- 14. Stellar parallax
- 15. Classifying stars by the H–R diagram (light & spectra)
- 16. Stellar evolution (scientific models)
- 17. Cepheid variable stars (cosmic distances)
- 18. The sun's distance from the galactic center (cosmic distances)
- 19. Rotation curve of a spiral galaxy (heavenly motions)
- 20. Hubble's law (cosmic distances)
- 21. Cosmic background radiation (light & spectra).
