The New Cosmic Universe

edited by Steve Mellema 
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• Chapter 1: Introducing Physics
• Chapter 2: The Universe at Its Limits
• Chapter 3: Motion Along a Straight Line
• Chapter 4: Circular Motion as One-Dimensional Motion
• Chapter 5: Introduction to Vectors
• Chapter 6: Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
• Chapter 7: Overview of the Solar System
• Chapter 8: Newton's Synthesis
• Chapter 9: Newton's Laws for Rotations
• Chapter 10: Work and Energy
• Chapter 11: Linear Momentum
• Chapter 12: Angular Momentum
• Conservation of Angular Momentum
• Chapter 13: The Nature of Light
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Chapter 14: Spectroscopy
• Chapter 15: The Origins of Light
• Blackbody Radiation
• The Bohr Atom
• Chapter 16: Introductory Thermodynamics
• Chapter 17: Kinetic Theory
• Chapter 18: Nuclear Energy and the Solar System
• Chapter 19: Comparative Planetology
• Chapter 20: Exoplanets
• Chapter 21: The Sun
• Chapter 22: Stellar Properties
• Chapter 23: Celestial Distances
• Chapter 24: Stellar Life Cycles
• Chapter 25: The Deaths of Stars
• Chapter 26: The Milky Way Galaxy
• Chapter 27: Galaxies
• Chapter 28: The Evolution and Distribution of Galaxies
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• 21-cm Radiation
• Chapter 29: Big Bang Cosmology
• Chapter 30: Geometric Optics - Light as Rays
• Reflection in a Plane Mirror
• Chapter 31: Image Formation
• Image Formation By a Convex Lens
• Keplerian Telescope
• Chapter 32: Physical Optics - Light as Waves
• Polarization of Light
• Chapter 33: Diffraction and Polarization
• Chapter 34: Astronomical Instruments