Moving Planets Around

Author : Javier Roa
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262359618
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Planets Around written by Javier Roa and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the laws of celestial mechanics and a step-by-step guide to developing software for direct use in astrophysics research. This book offers both an introduction to the laws of celestial mechanics and a step-by-step guide to developing software for direct use in astrophysics research. It bridges the gap between conventional textbooks, which present a rigorous and exhaustive exposition of theoretical concepts, and applying the theory to tackle real experiments. The text is written engagingly in dialogue form, presenting the research journey of the fictional Alice, Bob, and Professor Starmover. Moving Planets Around not only educates students on the laws of Newtonian gravity, it also provides all that they need to start writing their own software, from scratch, for simulating the dynamical evolution of planets and exoplanets, stars, or other heavenly bodies.

Author : Javier Roa Vicens Roa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262364980
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Planets Around written by Javier Roa Vicens Roa and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marianne Berkes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1584694629
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Around the Sun written by Marianne Berkes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy for kids! If you are looking for home school supplies, this book needs to be on your list. Through bright illustrations, young readers learn about our solar system to the tune of an old familiar song, "Over in the Meadow". In Going Around the Sun: Some Planetary Fun, readers also learn of our place in a very big universe and an appreciation for the world we live in. Mother sun and her "family" of planets "spin," "roll," "tilt," "blow" and "whirl" around the Sun to the tune of "Over in the Meadow." Each of those actions is astronomically correct—for example, Earth is the one that "tilts," and that's what creates the seasons. It is also astronomically up-to-date, with Pluto being a "dwarf planet." Bright illustrations create an exciting mood, and there's plenty of interesting supplementary information in the back along with tips on related ways to integrate science, art, and literature in the classroom. Backmatter Includes: Further information about the planets! Tips from the author and illustrator.

Author : P. Andrew Karam
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438120125
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Motion written by P. Andrew Karam and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, people looked at the sky in wonder, fascinated by the motions of a few wandering stars. Nobody understood where these wandering objects--now named Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn--came from, why they moved, or what drove their motions through the sky. Today, people know these objects are planets, but the quest to reach this understanding took thousands of years, and the consequences were profound. Famous scientists Johannes Kepler, Edmund Halley, Isaac Newton, and others discovered the laws of gravity and planetary motion, using these laws to explain the workings of the solar system. Their findings allowed the human race to find its way from planet to planet with unmanned probes and eventually allowed people to reach the moon. In "Planetary Motion," learn how scientists have found new planets outside the solar system, and continue their search for planets like Earth.

Author : Marcus Chown
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762480742
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solar System written by Marcus Chown and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated with the journeys of the 2012 Mars rover Curiosity and the 2020 Mars rover Perseverance, Solar System undertakes an astonishing visual journey through time and space through fascinating text, original graphics, and stunning photographs. Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages. Award‑winning writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown combines science and history to visually and narratively explore our neighboring planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets and more, as well as the historical figures who aided in their discoveries. From the explosive surface of the sun to the new missions on Mars; from the gargantuan rings of Saturn to the volcanoes of Io; from the latest images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons probe, to a simulation of what the Oort Cloud might look like, Solar System offers a window seat from which to view the beauty and magnificence of space.

Author : Jan Mader
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502637707
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Do Planets Move? written by Jan Mader and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in language accessible to elementary students, this resource brings the colossal science of planetary motion within reach of young readers. With beautiful illustrations and interactive experiments, this volume introduces students to the concepts of gravity, force, friction, and much more.

Author : George H. A. Cole
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750308151
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Science written by George H. A. Cole and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many planetary systems other than our own, but it is only through a detailed understanding of the relatively accessible bodies in our solar system that a thorough appreciation of planetary science can be gained. This is particularly pertinent with the recent discovery of extra-solar planets and the desire to understand their formation and the prospect of life on other worlds. Planetary Science: The Science of Planets Around Stars focuses on the structure of planets and the stars they orbit and the interactions between them. The book is written in two parts, making it suitable for students at different levels and approaching planetary science from differing backgrounds. Twelve independent descriptive chapters reveal our solar system and the diverse bodies it contains, including satellites, planetary rings, asteroids, comets, meteorites, and interstellar dust. These chapters are accompanied by 42 detailed topics that discuss specialized subjects in a quantitative manner and will be essential reading for those in higher level courses. Coverage includes mineralogy, stellar formation and evolution, solar system dynamics, atmospheric physics, planetary interiors, thermodynamics, planetary astrophysics, and exobiology. Problems and answers are also included. Planetary Science: The Science of Planets Around Stars presents a complete overview of planetary science for students of physics, astronomy, astrophysics, earth sciences, and geophysics. Assuming no prior knowledge of astrophysics or geophysics, this book is suitable for students studying planetary science for the first time.

Author : George Leander Chapin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets' Orbits, Paths and Relative Positions written by George Leander Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521565097
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets, Stars, and Orbs written by Edward Grant and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos.

Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404237353
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercury, Mars, and Other Inner Planets written by Chris Oxlade and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the surface, atmosphere, and characteristics of the inner planets, and discusses how they are explored and studied.