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Spring 2012 Credit/Noncredit Indian Valley Campus View Catalog Entry
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| This course is a non-mathematical description of
the universe designed especially for the nonscience student.
Topics include the sky and its apparent motion, the law of gravity, the nature of light, the solar system, stars and stellar evolution, galaxies and cosmology, and life in the universe. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area A, CSU Area B-1, IGETC 5A |
Instructor : John W. Hinds
Office : BLDG: MW 140 IVC - LC KTD
Phone: 883-2211 ex 8225
MasteringAstronomy® with Pearson eText -- Instant
Access -- for The Essential Cosmic Perspective, 6/E
ISBN-10: 0321731050
ISBN-13: 9780321731050
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2012
Format: Electronic Package;
624 pp
Published: 02/08/2011
Status: Available
Online purchase price: $78.00
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Key Topics: Our Place in the Universe, Discovering the
Universe for Yourself,The Science of Astronomy, Making Sense of the Universe:
Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity, Light and Matter: Reading Messages
from the Cosmos, Telescopes: Portals of Discovery, Our Solar System, Formation
of the Solar System, Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds,
Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds, Jovian Planet
Systems, Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits,and Impacts,
Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds,
Our Star,
Surveying the Stars, Star Birth, Star Stuff, The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard, Our
Galaxy, Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology, Galaxy Evolution, Dark
Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe, The Beginning of Time, Life
in the Universe
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