Book: Physics - From Stargazers to Starships (CK-12)
- Page ID
- 179
\( \newcommand{\vecs}[1]{\overset { \scriptstyle \rightharpoonup} {\mathbf{#1}} } \) \( \newcommand{\vecd}[1]{\overset{-\!-\!\rightharpoonup}{\vphantom{a}\smash {#1}}} \)\(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\)\(\newcommand{\AA}{\unicode[.8,0]{x212B}}\)
- Front Matter
- 1: Stargazers and Sunwatchers
- 2: The Celestial Sphere
- 3: Finding the Pole Star
- 4: The Ecliptic
- 5: Making a Sundial
- 6: Seasons of the Year
- 7: The Angle of the Sun's Rays
- 8: The Moon - the Distant View
- 9: The Moon - a Closer Look
- 10: Latitude and Longitude
- 11: Navigation
- 12: Coordinates
- 13: The Cross Staff
- 14: The Calendar
- 15: Precession
- 16: The Round Earth and Columbus
- 17: Distance to the Horizon
- 18: Parallax
- 19: Estimating the Distance to the Moon
- 20: Distance to the Moon II
- 21: Does the Earth Revolve Around the Sun?
- 22: The Earth's Shadow
- 23: The Planets
- Back Matter
Thumbnail: Note the two smaller eruptions before the big one. The Sun’s upper atmosphere (corona) is shown here. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported; Patrick McCauley/From Quarks to Quasars/SDO via Wikipedia).