Textbooks Pathways to Astronomy
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Pathways to Astronomy

Stephen E. Schneider 2nd Edition ISBN #9780073404455 528 Questions
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Chapters

1

Our Planetary Neighborhood

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Beyond the Solar System

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3

Astronomical Numbers

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4

Foundations of Astronomy

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The Night Sky

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6

The Year

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7

The Time of Day

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Lunar Cycles

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9

Calendars

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Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

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11

Planets: The Wandering Stars

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12

The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy

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13

Observing the Sky

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14

Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force

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15

Force, Acceleration, and Interaction

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16

The Universal Law of Gravity

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17

Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion

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18

Orbital and Escape Velocities

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19

Tides

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20

Conservation Laws

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21

Light, Matter, and Energy

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22

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

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Thermal Radiation

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24

Atomic Spectra: Identifying Atoms by Their Light

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25

The Doppler Shift

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26

Detecting Light

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27

Collecting Light

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28

Focusing Light

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29

Telescope Resolution

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30

The Earth's Atmosphere and Space Observatories

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31

Amateur Astronomy

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32

The Structure of the Solar System

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33

The Origin of the Solar System

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34

Other Planetary Systems

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35

The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet

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36

Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

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37

Our Moon

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38

Mercury

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39

Venus

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40

Mars

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41

Asteroids

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Comparative Planetology

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43

Jupiter and Saturn

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Uranus and Neptune

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Satellite Systems and Rings

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46

Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond

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47

Comets

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48

Impacts on Earth

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49

The Sun, Our Star

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The Sun's Source of Power

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Solar Activity

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52

Surveying the Stars

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Special Relativity

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54

Light and Distance

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55

The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars

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56

The Masses of Orbiting Star

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57

The Sizes of Stars

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58

The H-R Diagram

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59

Overview of Stellar Evolution

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Star Formation

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Main-Sequence Stars

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Giant Stars

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Variable Stars

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Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars

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Exploding White Dwarfs

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Old Age and Death of Massive Stars

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Neutron Stars

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Black Holes

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Star Clusters

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Discovering the Milky Way

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Stars of the Milky Way

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Gas and Dust in the Milky Way

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Mass and Motions in the Milky Way

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74

A Universe of Galaxies

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Types of Galaxies

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Galaxy Clustering

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Active Galactic Nuclei

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Dark Matter

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Cosmology

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The Edges of the Universe

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81

The Beginnings of the Universe

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The Fate of the Universe

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Astrobiology

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84

The Search for Life Elsewhere

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