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SOLUTION MANUAL FOR 21ST CENTURY ASTRONOMY 5TH EDITION BY LAURA KAY, STACEY PALEN, GEORGE BLUMENTHAL
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,SOLUTION MANUAL FOR 21ST CENTURY ASTRONOMY 5THEDITION BY LAURA KAY, STACEY PALEN, GEORGE
BLUMENTHAL
CONTENTS
Part 1 | Instructor’s Manual
Chapter 1 | Thinking Like an Astronomer 1
Chapter 2 | Patterns in the Sky—Motions of the Earth and Moon 9
Chapter 3 | Motion of Astronomical Bodies 19
Chapter 4 | Gravity and Orbits 27
Chapter 5 | Light 35
Chapter 6 | The Tools of the Astronomer 43
Chapter 7 | The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems 51
Chapter 8 | The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon 59
Chapter 9 | Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets 67
Chapter 10 | Worlds of Gas and Liquid—the Giant Planets 75
Chapter 11 | Planetary Moons and Rings 83
Chapter 12 | Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies 89
Chapter 13 | Taking the Measure of Stars 97
Chapter 14 | Our Star—The Sun 105
Chapter 15 | The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation 113
Chapter 16 | Evolution of Low-Mass Stars 121
Chapter 17 | Evolution of High-Mass Stars 129
Chapter 18 | Relativity and Black Holes 137
Chapter 19 | Galaxies 143
Chapter 20 | The Milky Way: A Normal Spiral Galaxy 149
Chapter 21 | The Expanding Universe 157
Chapter 22 | Cosmology 163
Chapter 23 | Large-Scale Structure in the Universe 169
Chapter 24 | Life 175
Part 2 | Answers to Starry Night Workbook Exercises
Exercise 1 | The Celestial Sphere 185
Exercise 2 | Earth’s Rotation Period 185
Exercise 3 | Motion of the Sun Along the Ecliptic 186
Exercise 4 | Motion of the Moon 186
Exercise 5 | Earth and Moon Phases 187
,Exercise 6 | Sunrise on Mars 189
Exercise 7 | Precession 191
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Exercise 8 | Kepler’s Laws 191
Exercise 9 | Flying to Mars 192
Exercise 10 | The Moons of Jupiter 192
Exercise 11 | The Rings of Saturn 193
Exercise 12 | Pluto and Kuiper Belt Objects 194
Exercise 13 | Asteroids 194
Exercise 14 | The Magnitude Scale and Distances 194
Exercise 15 | Stars and the H-R Diagram 196
Exercise 16 | Nebulae: The Birth and Death of Stars 197
Exercise 17 | Pulsars and Supernova Remnants 197
Exercise 18 | Galaxy Classification 198
Exercise 19 | Quasars and Active Galaxies 198
Exercise 20 | Views of the Milky Way 199
Exercise 21 | Globular Clusters 200
Exercise 22 | The Neighborhood of the Sun 200
Exercise 23 | Beyond the Milky Way 201
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