《通往天文學的途徑：第5版》是2020年哈爾濱工業大學出版社出版的圖書。
基本介紹
- 中文名：通往天文學的途徑：第5版
- 作者：[美] 史蒂芬.E.施耐德
- 出版時間：2020年1月1日
- 出版社：哈爾濱工業大學出版社
- ISBN：9787560381282
內容簡介,目錄,
內容簡介
本書規模宏大，內容相當全面，從經典到現代。比如本書第79單元就論及了現在很熱門的所謂“暗物質”。它將天文學導論分解成它的組成部分進行講解。在自然流暢的表達之下，巨大又迷人的天文學領域被分成了86個單元，使讀者，可以根據自己的興趣挑選相應主題來閱讀。本書的一個優點是它大量地採用了數學的語言，而非國人所常用的描述性日常用語。
本書的目標讀者，既可以是國內重點大學天文學專業的學生以及具有航天背景的工科大學的學生，也可以是對自己要求有期許的一個現代社會普通公民。
目錄
PART 1 THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE 1
Unit 1 Our Planctary Ncighborhood 1
Unit 2 Beyond the Solar System 9
Unit 3 Astronomical Numbers 17
Unit 4 Scientific Foundations of Astronomy 25
Unit 5 The Night Sky 33
Unit 6 The Year 40
Unit 7 The Time of Day 51
Unit 8 Lunar Cycles 58
Unit 9 Calendars 69
Unit 10 Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun 76
Unit 11 Planets: The Wandering Stars 84
Unit 12 The Beginnings of Modem Astronomy 93
Unit 13 Observing the Sky 100
PART 2 PROBING MATTER, LIGHT,
AND THEIR INTERACTIONS 109
Unit 14 Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force 109
Unit 15 Force. Acceleration. and Interaction 114
Unit 16 The Universal Law of Gravity 120
Unit 17 Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion 125
Unit 18 Orbital and Escape Velocities 129
Unit 19 Tides 135
Unit 20 Conservation Laws 141
Unit 21 The Dual Nature of Light and Matter 147
Unit 22 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 155
Unit 23 Thermal Radiation 162
Unit 24 Identifying Atoms by Their Spectra 168
Unit 25 The Doppler Shift 177
Unit 26 Special Relativity 181
Unit 27 General Relativity 189
Unit 28 Detecting Light-An Overview 196
Unit 29 Collecting Light 203
Unit 30 Focusing Light 210
Unit 31 Telescope Resolution 218
Unit 32 Earth's Atmosphere and Space Observatories 224
Unit 33 Amateur Astronomy 232
PART 3 THE SOLAR SYSTEM 241
Unit 34 The Structure of the Solar System 241
Unit 35 The Origin of the Solar System 250
Unit 36 Other Planetary Systems 261
Unit 37 Earth as a Terrestrial Planet 272
Unit 38 Earth's Aumosphere and Hydrosphere 283
Unit 39 Our Moon 294
Unit 40 Mercury 304
Unit 41 Venus 311
Unit 42 Mars 318
Unit 43 Asteroids 330
Unit 44 Comparative Planetology 340
Unit 45 Jupiter and Saturn: Gas Giants 351
Unit 46 Uranus and Neptune: Ice Giants 359
Unit 47 Satellite Systems and Rings 365
Unit 48 Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond 375
Unit 49 Comets 386
Unit 50 Impacts on Earth 396
PART 4 STARS AND STELLAR
EVOLUTION 404
Unit 51 The Sun. Our Star 404
Unit 52 The Sun's Source of Power 414
Unit 53 Solar Activity 422
Unit 54 Surveying the Stars 431
Unit 55 The Luminosities of Stars 442
Unit 56 The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars 448
Unit 57 The Masses of Orbiting Stars 456
Unit 58 The Sizes of Stars 461
Unit 59 The H-R Diagram 467
Unit 60 Overview of Stellar Evolution 475
Unit 61 Star Formation 483
Unit 62 Main-Sequence Stars 491
Unit 63 Giant Stars 498
Unit 64 Variable Stars 505
Unit 65 Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars 511
Unit 66 Exploding White Dwarfs 518
Unit 67 Old Age and Death of Massive Stars 524
Unit 68 Ncutron Stars 534
Unit 69 Black Holes 541
Unit 70 Star Clusters 550
PART 5 GALAXIES AND THE
UNIVERSE 559
Unit 71 Discovering the Milky Way 559
Unit 72 Stars of the Milky Way 566
Unit 73 Gas and Dust in the Milky Way 574
Unit 74 Mass and Motions in the Milky Way 582
Unit 75 A Universe of Galaxies 592
Unit 76 Types of Galaxies 600
Unit 77 Galaxy Clustering 611
Unit 78 Active Galactic Nuclei 620
Unit 79 Dark Matter 629
Unit 80 Cosmology 637
Unit 81 The Edges of the Universe 646
Unit 82 The Curvature and Expansion of Universes 654
Unit 83 The Beginnings of the Universe 662
Unit 84 Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe 673
Unit 85 Astrobiology 681
Unit 86 The Search for Life Elsewhere 690
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