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Solution Manual for 21st Century Astronomy 4th Edition Kay
Solution Manual for 21st Century Astronomy, 4th Edition, Laura Kay, Stacy Palen, Bradford Smith, George Blumenthal, ISBN 9780393918786
Table of Contents
PART I Introduction to Astronomy
Chapter 1. Why Learn Astronomy?
Chapter 2. Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth
Chapter 3. Motion of Astronomical Bodies
Chapter 4. Gravity and Orbits—A Celestial Ballet
Chapter 5. Light
Chapter 6. The Tools of the Astronomer
PART II The Solar System
Chapter 7. The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems
Chapter 8. The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon
Chapter 9. Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
Chapter 10. Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets
Chapter 11. Planetary Adornments—Moons and Rings
Chapter 12. Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
Part III Stars and Stellar Evolution
Chapter 13. Taking the Measure of Stars
Chapter 14. Our Sun
Chapter 15. Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
Chapter 16. Stars in the Slow Lane—Low-Mass Stellar Evolution
Chapter 17. Live Fast, Die Young—High-Mass Stellar Evolution
Chapter 18. Relativity and Black Holes
Part IV Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology
Chapter 19. Our Expanding Universe
Chapter 20. Galaxies
Chapter 21. The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy
Chapter 22. Modern Cosmology
Chapter 23. The Origin of Structure
Chapter 24. Life
