Foundations of Astronomy | 14th Edition

Michael A. Seeds/Dana Backman
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WebAssign for Seeds' FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, 14th Edition - Exclusively from Cengage Learning, WebAssign® combines the exceptional Astronomy content that you know and love with the most powerful online homework solution, WebAssign. Enhanced WebAssign engages students with immediate feedback, rich tutorial content, interactive eBooks, and Virtual Astronomy Labs, helping students to develop a deeper conceptual understanding of their subject matter. Online assignments can be built by selecting from hundreds of text-specific problems or supplemented with problems from any Cengage Learning textbook. WebAssign for Seeds/Backman's Foundations of Astronomy, 14th Edition, includes Virtual Astronomy Labs 3.0--a set of 20 interactive activities that combine analysis of real astronomical data with robust simulations and a guiding narrative to provide a true online laboratory experience for your Introductory Astronomy course. Each lab is presented in a modular format with individual auto-graded segments--giving you the control to personalize the labs to suit your needs. New to this edition are Waypoints: short animated video lectures presented by author Mike Seeds as a multimedia extension of the print product's unique Concept Art, and "Sense of Proportion" questions that help students understand the relative sizes of celestial objects, distances and so on. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking and adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.
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Fascinating, engaging and extremely visual, FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, 14th Edition, emphasizes the scientific method throughout as it guides students to answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know? In addition to exploring the newest developments and latest discoveries in the exciting field of Astronomy, authors Seeds and Backman discuss the interplay between evidence and hypothesis, providing both factual information and a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of science. Available with WebAssign, the powerful digital solution that enriches the teaching and learning experience. It includes Virtual Astronomy Labs 3.0--a set of 20 interactive activities that combine analysis of real astronomical data with robust simulations--providing a true online laboratory experience for your Introductory Astronomy course.