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Challenges of Astronomy - Hands-on Experiments for the Sky and Laboratory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Challenges of Astronomy - Hands-on Experiments for the Sky and Laboratory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Challenges of Astronomy in a unique collection of thirty astronomy
experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology. Each of
the experiments contains one or more challenges for the reader. The
progression is from the Earth outward through the solar system to
the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the
sky, Stonehenge as a stoneage abacus, determination of the size of
the Earth, the distance of the Moon and planets, Kepler's laws,
planetary mass and density, the temperatures and atmospheres of
planets, the speed of light, the distances of stars, the nature of
the quiet and active Sun, photometry and spectroscopy, stars
clusters and variable stars, fundamental properties of stars, and
Olber's paradox.
Challenges of Astronomy is a translation and extensive revision of
a German-language resource book for secondary school teachers of
science. Physical science teachers will find this edition too a
rich resource of experiments to their own milieus, but it is
suitable for many other English-language readers too, from northern
and southern hemisphere locations. The beginning experiments are
suitable for bright high school and non-science major university
students while the later experiments which offer increasingly
difficult challenges are more suitable for sciences majors.
Amateurs with a variety of skills will find this hands-on book
entertaining, informative, and useful.
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