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Astronomy Notes

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Material Type: Open Textbook
Technical Format: PDF
Date Added to MERLOT: January 06, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT: January 06, 2011
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Submitter : Cathy Swift

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According to The Orange Grove, "Astronomy Notes is a web-book covering topics such as a brief overview of astronomy's place in the scientific endeavor, the philosophy of science and the scientific method, astronomy that can be done without a telescope, a history of astronomy and science, Newton's law of gravity and applications to orbits, Einstein's Relativity theories, electromagnetic radiation, telescopes, all the objects of the solar system, solar system formation, determining properties of the stars, the Sun, fusion reactions, stellar structure, stellar evolution, the interstellar medium, the structure of the Milky Way galaxy, extra-galactic astronomy including active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, and extra-terrestrial life. The Astronomy Notes website also has pages giving angular momentum examples, a quick mathematics review, improving study skills, astronomy tables, and astronomy terms."


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Primary Audience: College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Language: English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

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