Astronomy : Physical Perspective - 2nd edition

1. Introduction

Part I. Properties of Ordinary Stars:

2. Continuous radiation from stars
3. Spectral Lines in stars
4. Telescopes
5. Binary stars and stellar masses
6. The Sun: a typical star

Part II. Relativity:

7. Special relativity
8. General relativity

Part III. Stellar Evolution:

9. The main sequence
10. Stellar old age
11. The death of high mass stars
12. Evolution in close binaries
13. Clusters of stars

Part IV. The Milky Way:

14. Contents of the interstellar medium
15. Star formation
16. The Milky Way galaxy

Part V. The Universe at Large:

17. Normal galaxies
18. Clusters of galaxies
19. Active galaxies
20. Cosmology
21. The Big Bang

Part VI. The Solar System:

22. Overview of the solar system
23. The Earth and Moon
24. The inner planets
25. The outer planets
26. Minor bodies in the solar system
27. The origin of life

Appendices.

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.3 or above
• At least 128 MB RAM, a 600 mHz processor, and 110 MB of hard drive space
• 1024x768 screen resolution or larger

eBooks and eChapters can be viewed by using Adobe Digital Editions eBook Reader.

After purchasing your eBook or eChapter you will be given instructions on where and how to download your free reader.

Due to the size of eBooks, a high-speed Internet connection (cable modem, DSL, LAN) is required for download stability and speed. Your connection can be wired or wireless.

Being online is not required for reading an eBook after successfully downloading it.You must only be connected to the Internet during the download process.

Click Here to access the Adobe Digital Editions FAQ

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Key

Printing - Books that cannot be printed will show "Not Allowed." Otherwise, this will detail the number of times it can be printed, or "Allowed with no limits."

Expires - Books that have no expiration (the date upon which you will no longer be able to access your eBook) will read "No Expiration." Otherwise it will state the number of days from activation (the first time you actually read it).

Reading Aloud - Books enabled with the "text-to-speech" feature so that they can be read aloud will show "Allowed."

Sharing - Books that cannot be shared with other computers will show "Not Allowed."

Min. Software Version - This is the minimum software version needed to read this book.

Suitable Devices - Hardware known to be compatable with this book. Note: Reader software still needs to be installed.