Astronomy Tutorial (Second Edition) (Volume 1) (21st Century Oriented) (Second Edition)

Author: Hu Zhongwei
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book is a research outcome of the "Reform Plan for Teaching Content and Curriculum Systems in Higher Education Towards the 21st Century" by the Ministry of Education. It is a 21st-century curriculum textbook and a national key textbook for the "Nineth Five-Year Plan" in general higher education. The book comprehensively and systematically elaborates on the fundamental knowledge of astronomy, reflecting important achievements in new developments within the field. It includes emerging and emerging new technologies, new methods, new ideas, and new theories, as well as newly achieved results. The book is divided into two volumes. The first volume covers celestial coordinate systems and time measurement systems, the radiation of celestial bodies, and astronomical observations, as well as various celestial bodies in the solar system. The second volume includes various types of stars, compact stars (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes), binary stars, star clusters, nebulae, and stellar evolution, the Milky Way, as well as galaxies and cosmology. This book can serve as a basic textbook for undergraduate students in astronomy, physics, geography, and other related majors, and can also be referenced by faculty and scientific and technical personnel in other relevant fields.