Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781429217972
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Freeman’s briefest, least expensive introductory astronomy text. Discovering the Essential Universe, Fourth Edition (DEU 4e) is designed to help students overcome common misconceptions about astronomy. It provides up-to-date explanations of core concepts in a flexible and student-friendly text, supported by an impressive collection of multimedia resources developed by astronomy education researchers.
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429255196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Discovering the Universe, Fifth Edition is one of the briefest texts available for an introductory astronomy course, while providing the wide range of factual topics that are the hallmark of the text and are consistent with most course needs. By flipping through the book, readers will find it as rich in celestial images and figures as other textbooks for the same audience. It is a balanced approach to content, depth, and breath, with effective teaching resources. It is also up-to-date, reflecting how our knowledge about the universe is expanding at a phenomenal rate.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429255196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Discovering the Universe, Fifth Edition is one of the briefest texts available for an introductory astronomy course, while providing the wide range of factual topics that are the hallmark of the text and are consistent with most course needs. By flipping through the book, readers will find it as rich in celestial images and figures as other textbooks for the same audience. It is a balanced approach to content, depth, and breath, with effective teaching resources. It is also up-to-date, reflecting how our knowledge about the universe is expanding at a phenomenal rate.
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781429217972
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Freeman’s briefest, least expensive introductory astronomy text. Discovering the Essential Universe, Fourth Edition (DEU 4e) is designed to help students overcome common misconceptions about astronomy. It provides up-to-date explanations of core concepts in a flexible and student-friendly text, supported by an impressive collection of multimedia resources developed by astronomy education researchers.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781429217972
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Freeman’s briefest, least expensive introductory astronomy text. Discovering the Essential Universe, Fourth Edition (DEU 4e) is designed to help students overcome common misconceptions about astronomy. It provides up-to-date explanations of core concepts in a flexible and student-friendly text, supported by an impressive collection of multimedia resources developed by astronomy education researchers.
Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319030203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319030203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.
Loose-leaf Version for Discovering the Essential Universe
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781464181719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them. With its signature combination of vivid writing and spectacular images, the new edition offers new findings, new study help, and an expanded new media/supplements package centered on W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad.
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781464181719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them. With its signature combination of vivid writing and spectacular images, the new edition offers new findings, new study help, and an expanded new media/supplements package centered on W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad.
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Languages : en
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Discovering the Essential Universe (Loose Leaf)
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781429239523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9781429239523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Discovering the Essential Universe, Second Edition
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716758044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new edition of Freeman’s briefest astronomy text providing just the essentials at a student-friendly price.
Discovering the Expanding Universe
Author: Harry Nussbaumer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book explores the history of the discovery of the expanding universe, one of the most exciting exploits in astronomy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book explores the history of the discovery of the expanding universe, one of the most exciting exploits in astronomy.
Heavenly Errors
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231116454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Astronomy is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines. With the participation of undergraduate students, Comins has identified and classified, by origin and topic, over 1,700 commonly held misconceptions. 20 illustrations.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231116454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Astronomy is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines. With the participation of undergraduate students, Comins has identified and classified, by origin and topic, over 1,700 commonly held misconceptions. 20 illustrations.
Welcome to the Universe
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691177813
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the Universe Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. This problem book features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course—ideal for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the original material and to learn to think like an astrophysicist. Whether you’re a student or teacher, citizen scientist or science enthusiast, your guided tour of the cosmos just got even more hands-on with Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book. The essential companion book to the acclaimed bestseller Features the problems used in the original introductory astronomy course for non science majors at Princeton University Organized according to the structure of Welcome to the Universe, empowering readers to explore real astrophysical problems that are conceptually introduced in each chapter Problems are designed to stimulate physical insight into the frontier of astrophysics Problems develop quantitative skills, yet use math no more advanced than high school algebra Problems are often multipart, building critical thinking and quantitative skills and developing readers’ insight into what astrophysicists do Ideal for course use—either in tandem with Welcome to the Universe or as a supplement to courses using standard astronomy textbooks—or self-study Tested in the classroom over numerous semesters for more than a decade Prefaced with a review of relevant concepts and equations Full solutions and explanations are provided, allowing students and other readers to check their own understanding
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691177813
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the Universe Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. This problem book features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course—ideal for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the original material and to learn to think like an astrophysicist. Whether you’re a student or teacher, citizen scientist or science enthusiast, your guided tour of the cosmos just got even more hands-on with Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book. The essential companion book to the acclaimed bestseller Features the problems used in the original introductory astronomy course for non science majors at Princeton University Organized according to the structure of Welcome to the Universe, empowering readers to explore real astrophysical problems that are conceptually introduced in each chapter Problems are designed to stimulate physical insight into the frontier of astrophysics Problems develop quantitative skills, yet use math no more advanced than high school algebra Problems are often multipart, building critical thinking and quantitative skills and developing readers’ insight into what astrophysicists do Ideal for course use—either in tandem with Welcome to the Universe or as a supplement to courses using standard astronomy textbooks—or self-study Tested in the classroom over numerous semesters for more than a decade Prefaced with a review of relevant concepts and equations Full solutions and explanations are provided, allowing students and other readers to check their own understanding