SOLUTION MANUAL FOR 21ST CENTURY ASTRONOMY 5TH EDITION BY LAURA KAY, STACEY PALEN, GEORGE BLUMENTHAL

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SOLUTION MANUAL FOR 21ST CENTURY ASTRONOMY 5TH EDITION BY LAURA KAY, STACEY PALEN, GEORGE BLUMENTHAL CONTENTS Part 1 | Instructor’s Manual Chapter 1 | Thinking Like an Astronomer ... 1 Chapter 2 | Patterns in the Sky—Motions of the Earth and Moon 9 Chapter 3 | Motion of Astronomical Bodies 19 Chapter 4 | Gravity and Orbits 27 Chapter 5 | Light 35 Chapter 6 | The Tools of the Astronomer 43 Chapter 7 | The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems 51 Chapter 8 | The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon 59 Chapter 9 | Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets 67 Chapter 10 | Worlds of Gas and Liquid—the Giant Planets 75 Chapter 11 | Planetary Moons and Rings 83 Chapter 12 | Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies 89 Chapter 13 | Taking the Measure of Stars 97 Chapter 14 | Our Star—The Sun 105 Chapter 15 | The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation 113 Chapter 16 | Evolution of Low-Mass Stars 121 Chapter 17 | Evolution of High-Mass Stars 129 Chapter 18 | Relativity and Black Holes 137 Chapter 19 | Galaxies 143 Chapter 20 | The Milky Way: A Normal Spiral Galaxy 149 Chapter 21 | The Expanding Universe 157 Chapter 22 | Cosmology 163 Chapter 23 | Large-Scale Structure in the Universe 169 Chapter 24 | Life 175 [Show More]

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