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.Cosmic Perspective, The. DescriptionFor two-semester courses in astronomy.Teaching the Process of Science through AstronomyBuilding on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, Eighth Edition provides a thoroughly engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors.

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This text offers a wealth of features that enhance student understanding of the process of science and actively engage students in the learning process for key concepts. The fully updated Eighth Edition includes the latest scientific discoveries, revises several subjects based on our most current understanding of the cosmos, and now emphasizes deeper understanding of the twists and turns of the process of science and the relevance of concepts to student’s lives.The text is supported by a robust package of instructor and student ancillaries, including MasteringAstronomy. About the TextbookCutting-Edge Content. Thorough coverage of new discoveries includes the latest information on solar system missions, the search for extrasolar planets, galaxy evolution, and cosmology. Because recent discoveries have a big impact on our understanding of the universe, reflecting them in the text ensures that students understand astronomy in a current and accurate context.

REVISED! Chapter 21, Galaxy Evolution, is heavily revised and extensively updated to place new emphasis on the gas cycle in galaxies and the role of black holes in regulating it.

(Authors Voit & Donahue have played a big role in this research trend.)Pedagogical Approach. A cosmic framework establishes a solid foundation of understanding by exploring our place in the universe and how astronomers know what they know, fleshing out these themes throughout the text. This approach motivates students to learn and helps them develop both a personal understanding of astronomy and a lasting appreciation of the process of science. NEW! “My Cosmic Perspective” features brings the personal relevance of the chapter content to light for students. These appear at the end of every chapter. A comparative planetology approach helps students understand the similarities and differences between planets and the processes that shape them.

Planet-by-planet information combined with this comparative approach gives students a deeper understanding of our solar system, other solar systems, and the prospects for life in the universe. Consistent Chapter Structure Focused on Learning Goals provides a clear, student-friendly path through the book. It consists of:.

Motivational learning goals, phrased as questions at the start of each chapter, that help students focus on key concepts. Sections written to address each learning goal. Every section of each chapter is written to answer a single learning goal question, keeping students focused on core ideas. Visual summaries revisit learning goals at the end of every chapter, using text and key figures to reinforce what students have learned in each section. The Process of Science, a major theme integrated throughout the main text, is reinforced with a set of short answer questions at the end of each chapter, as well as a suite of tutorials available for assignment on MasteringAstronomy.

NEW! Extraordinary Claims boxes delve deeper into the realities of the Process of Science as it unfolds using case studies to highlight the twists, turns and dead ends as well as successful results. Annotated Figures and Photos act as the voice of the instructor to walk students through the key ideas presented in complex figures, photos, and graphs. Cosmic Context Figures combine text and illustrations into accessible and coherent two-page visual summaries that help improve students’ understanding of essential topics. NEW!

Cosmic Context spread on the Galactic Center incorporates cutting edge insights in Chapter 19. A visual overview of scale foldout gives students an at-a-glance reference to review one of the most important ideas in astronomy. Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering AstronomyPearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline.

Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class – motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.Mastering Astronomy from Pearson is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment system, designed to improve results by engaging students before, during, and after class with powerful content. Instructors ensure students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources. Students can further master concepts after class through homework assignments that provide, interactivity, hints and answer-specific feedback. The Mastering gradebook records scores for all automatically graded assignments in one place, while diagnostic tools give instructors access to rich data to assess student understanding and misconceptions.Mastering brings learning full circle by continuously adapting to each student and making learning more personal than ever–before, during, and after class.

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Interactive prelecture videos provide subject overview for exposure to key concepts before class, opening the classroom time for active learning or deeper discussions of topics. These can be used for simple pre-class exposure or fully flipped classrooms. NEW! 20 additional Learning Goal based tutorials. NEW! EText 2.0. Now available on smartphones and tablets.

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Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode. Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search.

Prelecture Reading questions check students’ familiarity with key concepts, prompting them to do their assigned reading prior to coming to class. These quizzes keep students on track, keep them more engaged in lecture, and help you spot the concepts with which they are having the most difficulty. Open-ended essay questions help students to identify what they find most difficult about a concept, helping to better inform you and assisting with “Just-in-time” teaching.

During Class. Learning Catalytics ™is an interactive classroom tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now included with Mastering with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Instructors, you can:. Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your students develop critical thinking skills. Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling.

Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and try other ways of engaging your students during class. Manage student interactions by automatically grouping students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning. After Class.

NEW! Narrated figures of key illustrations in the text are designed to help students improve their understanding of the most challenging concepts, hone their visual skills and introduce interactivity whenever possible.

NEW! 3 new fully scaffolded problems provide greater learning instruction for students attempting math-based problems. NEW! New and Enhanced interactive figures formatted for mobile use. NEW! Popular time and space scale foldout (found inside the front cover) developed as an interactive, mobile friendly tool.

NEW! Virtual Astronomy Labs are assignable, online laboratory activities that utilize Stellarium and also interactive figures to conduct night sky, data collection, and inquiry based labs. Tutorials, featuring specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a wide variety of interactive, educationally effective content, guide your students through the toughest topics in astronomy. The hallmark Hints and Feedback offer instruction similar to what students would experience in an office hour, allowing them to learn from their mistakes without being given the answer. Narrated Figure Visual Activities are assignable visual activities with narrated animations that that expand on figures in the text. Pause-and-respond questions engage students in a deeper understanding of the topic, while the assignable activities help students build versatile interpretation skills.

Specific wrong-answer feedback guides students to a deeper understanding of their significance in astronomy. New to the textbook. REVISED! Chapter 21, Galaxy Evolution, is heavily revised and extensively updated to place new emphasis on the gas cycle in galaxies and the role of black holes in regulating it.

(Authors Voit & Donahue have played a big role in this research trend.). “My Cosmic Perspective” features brings the personal relevance of the chapter content to light for students. Table of ContentsPART I. DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE1. A Modern View of the Universe2. Discovering the Universe For Yourself3. The Science of AstronomyS1.

Celestial Timekeeping and NavigationPART II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY4. Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity5. Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos6. Telescopes: Portals of DiscoveryPART III. LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS7. Our Planetary System8.

Formation of the Solar System9. Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds10. Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds11. Jovian Planet Systems12. Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts13. Other Planetary Systems: the New Science of Distant WorldsPART IV. A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURES2.

Space and TimeS3. Spacetime and GravityS4. Building Blocks of the UniversePART V. Surveying the Stars16.

Star Birth17. Star Stuff18. Stellar GraveyardPART VI. GALAXIES AND BEYOND19. Our Galaxy20.

Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology21. Galaxy Evolution22. The Birth of the Universe23. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the UniversePART VII.

LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND24. Life In the UniverseAppendixesGlossaryCreditsIndex.

About the Author(s)Jeffrey Bennett, a recipient of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, holds a B.A. In biophysics (UC San Diego) and an M.S. In astrophysics (University of Colorado). He specializes in science and math education and has taught at every level from preschool through graduate school.

Career highlights including serving 2 years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he developed programs to build stronger links between research and education, and proposing and helping to develop the Voyage scale model solar system on the National Mall (Washington, DC). He is the lead author of textbooks in astronomy, astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics, and of critically acclaimed books for the public including Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press, 2008/2011), Math for Life (Big Kid Science, 2014), What Is Relativity? (Columbia University Press, 2014), and On Teaching Science (Big Kid Science, 2014). In 2014, his five children’s books ( Max Goes to the Space Station, Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, Max Goes to Jupiter, and The Wizard Who Saved the World) became the first books launched to the International Space Station for the Story Time From Space program. He and his family live in Boulder, Colorado.

His personal website is www.jeffreybennett.com.Megan Donahue is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her current research is mainly about using X-ray, UV, infrared, and visible light to study clusters of galaxies: their contents–dark matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei–and what they reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received an S.B. In physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray astronomer. She has a Ph.D. In astrophysics from the University of Colorado.

Thesis on theory and optical observations of intergalactic and intracluster gas won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued postdoctoral research as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScI Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute until 2003, when she joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, and they collaborate on many projects, including this textbook and the raising of their children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. Between the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon. These days, Megan runs trails, orienteers, and plays piano and bass guitar whenever her children allow it.Nicholas Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A.

In physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. In planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991, he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests include planetary atmospheres and planetary astronomy. One research focus is the odd case of Jupiter’s moon Io.

Another is the mystery of Mars’s lost atmosphere, which he hopes to answer by serving as science lead on the Imaging UV Spectrograph on NASA’s MAVEN mission. Nick enjoys teaching at all levels and is active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. In 2010, he received the Boulder Faculty Assembly’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Off the job, Nick enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and figuring out how things work.Mark Voit is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. He earned his A.B. In astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. In astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990.

He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow. Before going to Michigan State, Mark worked in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and helped design NASA’s award-winning HubbleSite. His research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is married to coauthor Megan Donahue, and cooks terrific meals for her and their three children.

Mark likes getting outdoors whenever possible and particularly enjoys running, mountain biking, canoeing, orienteering, and adventure racing. He is also author of the popular book Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.

NOTE: This ISBN is a Standalone Book. The Item does not include Access codeBuilding on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, Seventh Edition provides a thoroughly engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors.

The text provides a wealth of features that enhance skill-building, including new group work exercises that help you retain concepts longer and build communication skills for the future. The Seventh Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, results from recent space missions, research, and theoretical developments that inform our understanding of the early universe.Two volumes of this text are also available:.

The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, Seventh Edition (includes Chapters 1—13, 24). The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, Seventh Edition (includes Chapters 1—6, S2—S4, 14—24)'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. About the Author:Jeffrey BennettJeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. (1981) in biophysics from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. (1987) in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has taught at every level from preschool through graduate school, including more than 50 college classes in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and education. He served 2 years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he created NASA’s “IDEAS” program, started a program to fly teachers aboard NASA’s airborne observatories (including SOFIA), and worked on numerous educational programs for the Hubble Space Telescope and other space science missions.

He also proposed the idea for and helped develop both the Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the CU-Boulder campus and the Voyage Scale Model Solar System on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In addition to this astronomy textbook, he is also lead author of college-level textbooks in astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics (all from Pearson); of critically acclaimed two books for the general public including, On the Cosmic Horizon (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press, 2008/2011) and Math for Life (Roberts & Co, 2012); and an of the award-winning series of children’s books that includes Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, Max Goes to Jupiter, and Max’s Ice Age AdventureThe Wizard Who Saved the World.

When not working, he enjoys participating in masters swimming and in the daily adventures of life with his wife, Lisa; his children, Grant and Brooke; and his dog, Cosmo. His personal Web site is www.jeffreybennett.com.Megan DonahueMegan Donahue is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Her current research is mainly about using X-ray, UV, infrared, and visible light to study clusters of galaxies: their contents–dark matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei–and what they reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received an S.B.

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In physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray astronomer. She has a Ph.D. In astrophysics from the University of Colorado. Thesis on theory and optical observations of intergalactic and intracluster gas won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued postdoctoral research as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScI Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute until 2003, when she joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, and they collaborate on many projects, including this textbook and the raising of their children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela.

Between the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon. These days, Megan runs trails, orienteers, and plays piano and bass guitar whenever her children allow it.Nicholas SchneiderNicholas Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A.

In physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. In planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991, he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award.

His research interests include planetary atmospheres and planetary astronomy, with a focus on the odd case of Jupiter’s moon Io. He enjoys teaching at all levels and is active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. Off the job, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and figuring out how things work.Mark VoitMark Voit is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He earned his A.B. In astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. In astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow.

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Before going to Michigan State, Mark worked in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and helped design NASA’s award-winning HubbleSite. His research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe. He is married to coauthor Megan Donahue, and cooks terrific meals for her and their three children. Mark likes getting outdoors whenever possible and particularly enjoys running, mountain biking, canoeing, orienteering, and adventure racing. He is also author of the popular book Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.'

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