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The Physics of Planet Earth and Its Natural Wonders
From earthquakes to the northern lights and tsunamis to glacier movement, the author explains thousands of phenomena in the world around us. All of this is done using language that is simple and understandable, and at the same time this book does not try to deceive the reader, as materials of this nature often do, but uses exact physical formulas where they are needed.This book serves as an invaluable reference for physics teachers and should inspire high school students to study physics. Many of them will very likely be able to understand that riveting events and phenomena lie behind those very same formulas that just yesterday seemed so boring.This is an excellent and unique way of easily submerging oneself into the world of science and a non-stop intellectual challenge that lures the reader in much more than any game of chess.Sir Andre Geim, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in PhysicsThere are plenty of high school students who continue to find science interesting today. Dmitry Livanov¿s book, which is both useful and held in high regard, is written precisely with these young people in mind.This book can be used by teachers who want to expand the narrow scope of subject material in their classes and enable students to broaden their perspective about how to apply the laws of physics in order to understand such a complex natural object as planet Earth. This book will be of interest to high school students and graduates of high schools, specialized high schools and preparatory schools who want to test their understanding of physics, astronomy and geography. This book strengthens the foundation of scientific knowledge in today¿s world, which repeatedly tests the strength of the collective body of science.Evgeniy Yamburg,Member of the Russian Academy of EducationPrincipal, School #109, Moscow Dmitry Livanov was able to write a book thatis interesting both for those who are just beginning to become familiar with physics, and for those who for various reasons have forgotten much of what they knew at one time. He succeeded in doing this because he himself knows and loves physics and because physics¿as the most important part of human culture¿is interesting to him.I hope that readers of this book will not only recognize the usefulness and importance of physics, but also appreciate its beauty and allure.Andrey Furchenko,Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
€ 32,09 -
Natural Law in Terrestrial Phenomena: A Study in the Causation of Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, Wind-Storms, Temperature, Rainfall, With a Record o
€ 27,50 -
Results Of Observations Made At The Coast And Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory At Vieques, Porto Rico 1909 And 1910
€ 19,50 -
Buitenaardse vulkanen
Van gloeiend hete vuurspuwers tot immense ijsfonteinenDe aarde is niet de enige planeet met vulkanen. Het zonnestelsel, en waarschijnlijk het hele heelal, zit er vol mee. In Buitenaardse vulkanen neemt geoloog en astrochemicus Natalie Starkey je mee langs gloeiend hete vuurspuwers en immense ijsfonteinen. Dit rijk geïllustreerde boek verkent de opvallendste vulkanen in ons zonnestelsel. Denk aan de vuurspuwers op Jupiters maan Io, die de heetste lava in het zonnestelsel uitbraken. Of de vulkanen op Pluto, die een ijzige smeltsneeuw produceren van stoffen als water, methaan, stikstof en ammoniak. Die smeltsneeuw bevriest en vormt ijsbergen die zo hard als steen zijn. Al deze vulkanen geven wetenschappers inzicht in het binnenste van hemellichamen. Vulkanen halen materiaal op uit de ontoegankelijke diepten en brengen dat naar het oppervlak. De manier waarop ze uitbarsten, en de producten die ze voortbrengen, kunnen wetenschappers zelfs helpen met de vraag of elders in het zonnestelsel leven kan bestaan.
€ 47,50 -
Physics of Earth's Radiation Belts
This open access book serves as textbook on the physics of the radiation belts surrounding the Earth. Discovered in 1958 the famous Van Allen Radiation belts were among the first scientific discoveries of the Space Age. Throughout the following decades the belts have been under intensive investigation motivated by the risks of radiation hazards they expose to electronics and humans on spacecraft in the Earth¿s inner magnetosphere.This textbook teaches the field from basic theory of particles and plasmas to observations which culminated in the highly successful Van Allen Probes Mission of NASA in 2012-2019. Using numerous data examples the authors explain the relevant concepts and theoretical background of the extremely complex radiation belt region, with the emphasis on giving a comprehensive and coherent understanding of physical processes affecting the dynamics of the belts. The target audience are doctoral students and young researchers who wish to learn about the physicalprocesses underlying the acceleration, transport and loss of the radiation belt particles in the perspective of the state-of-the-art observations.
€ 42,79 -
Einblicke in die euklidische und nichteuklidische Geometrie
Dieses Buch thematisiert wesentliche Grundlagen der euklidischen Geometrie sowie mehrerer nichteuklidischer Geometrien und unterstützt damit Studierende der Mathematik, Physik, Astronomie, Geografie, Geodäsie und Nautik. Von den vielfältigen Bezügen zwischen ausgewählten Inhalten der euklidischen Geometrie, Taxi-Geometrie, projektiven, sphärischen und hyperbolischen Geometrie profitieren auch Studierende des Lehramtes Mathematik. Es erleichtert insbesondere die Einarbeitung in Fragestellungen der synthetischen Geometrie, speziellen und allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Astrometrie, Kartenentwürfe und Navigation.Kennzeichnende Merkmale dieses Buches sind seine Anbindung an schulische Vorkenntnisse sowie die Verdeutlichung von Begriffsbildungen und Vorgehensweisen durch verständnisfördernde Hintergrundinformationen, viele Abbildungen, ausführlich vorgerechnete Beispiele und detailliert beschriebene Konstruktionen. Wegen dieser didaktischen Konzeption eignet sich das Buch hervorragend zur Begleitung der Lehrveranstaltungen an der Hochschule, indem es die übliche algebraische Darstellung auf hohem Abstraktionsniveau ¿mit Leben erfüllt¿ und verständlich macht. Die Besonderheit des Buches liegt darin, dass der Autor den Mut aufgebracht hat, auf einen vollständigen synthetischen Aufbau der angesprochenen Geometrien zugunsten von Querverbindungen zwischen ihnen zu verzichten. Um den Rahmen des Buches nicht zu sprengen und die Übersicht zu wahren, werden Beweise dann geführt, wenn es sich um zentrale Sätze handelt oder wenn typische Vorgehensweisen verdeutlicht werden können.
€ 34,99 -
Der neue Kosmos
Der neue Kosmos bietet in überschaubarem Umfang eine zusammenhängende Einführung in das Gesamtgebiet der Astronomie und Astrophysik. Aus den Bereichen: Klassische Astronomie und Planetensystem, Instrumente und Beobachtungsverfahren, Sonne und Sterne, Milchstraße und Galaxien, Kosmologie, Entstehung des Planetensystems, Entwicklung der Erde und des Lebens werden die Beobachtungsmethoden und die Ergebnisse astronomischer Forschung sowie deren theoretische Grundlagen und wechselseitigen Zusammenhänge vermittelt.¿Der neue Kosmos¿ ist der Klassiker unter den deutschsprachigen Astronomie-Lehrbüchern. Die vorliegende 7. Auflage bietet Studenten und Forschern in Bereichen der Astronomie, Physik und Geowissenschaften sowie einem weiten Kreis ernsthaft interessierter Amateure einen umfassenden Einblick in die moderne Astronomie.
€ 42,79 -
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Mit diesem Werk von D.B. Herrmann, dem bekannten Astronomiehistoriker und Direktor der Archenhold-Sternwarte und des Zeiss-Großplanetariums in Berlin, liegt zum ersten Mal eine umfassende Biographie des großen Astronomen Ejnar Hertzsprung vor. Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873-1967) verdanken wir die Entdeckung der Riesen- und Zwergsterne, Grundlage für das sog. Hertzsprung-Russel-Diagramm, das eine zentrale Rolle bei der Erforschung der Sternentwicklung spielt. Er bearbeitete erfolgreich Doppelsterne und Veränderliche Sterne und trug Entscheidendes zur modernen Astrophysik bei. Wenig bekannt ist sein Leben, das hier unter Benutzung von Arbeitsmaterial, Interviews mit Zeitgenossen, des Familienarchivs und von Sekundärliteratur von einem kundigen Fachmann beschrieben wird. In D.B. Herrmanns Buch wird nicht nur Persönlichkeit und Werk von Hertzsprung lebendig, sondern auch die astronomische Forschung seiner Zeit. Dieser wertvolle Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte wendet sich auch an eine breite allgemeine Leserschaft.
€ 44,99 -
The Sun
This is an account of the many ways in which the Sun affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the last few centuries and millennia, and the extent to which we can predict its future impact. The book is the first to integrate astronomical, geological, climatic and social aspects of the Sun. It includes a topical treatment of solar contribution to global warming, and demonstrates how wild and variable is the so-called Solar Constant. Our nearest star is a complex machine which needs to be treated with caution, and this book will equip every reader with the knowledge that is required to understand the benefits and dangers it can bring.
€ 32,99 -
Full Meridian of Glory
[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble]Dan Brown¿s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small spice of fact into a large dollop of fiction to create an entertaining novel of intrigue, adventure, romance, danger and conspiracy, which have been imaginatively worked together to cook up the successful bestseller. Most interest in the book¿s origins has centred on the sensational religious aspects. Dan Brown has written: ¿All of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact.¿ This gives an air of authenticity to the book. Brown has, however, made up the religious doctrines, or based them on questionable accounts by others. The locations of the actions of The Da Vinci Code are not, however, made up. The present book is the scientific story behind the scene of several of the book¿s actions that take place on the axis of France that passes through Paris. The Paris Meridian is the name of this location. It is the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers ¿ people who study and measure the stars ¿ and geodesists ¿ people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why. It is a true story behind Dan Brown¿s fiction. This is the first English language presentation of this historical material. It is attractively written and it features the story of the community of scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They knew each other well ¿ some were members of the same families, in one caseof four generations. Like scientists everywhere they collaborated and formed alliances; they also split into warring factions and squabbled. They travelled to foreign countries, somehow transcending the national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideas of accuracy, truth and objective, enduring values ¿ save where the reception given to their own work is concerned, when some became blind to high ideals and descended into petty politics. To establish the Paris Meridian, the scientists endured hardship, survived danger and gloried in amazing adventures during a time of turmoil in Europe, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War between France and Spain. Some were accused of witchcraft. Some of their associates lost their heads on the guillotine. Some died of disease. Some won honour and fame. One became the Head of State in France, albeit for no more than a few weeks. Some found dangerous love in foreign countries. One scientist killed in self defence when attacked by a jealous lover, another was himself killed by a jealous lover, a third brought back a woman to France and then jilted her, whereupon she joined a convent. The scientists worked on practical problems of interest to the government and to the people. They also worked on one of the important intellectual problems of the time, a problem of great interest to their fellow scientists all over the world, nothing less than the theory of universal gravitation. They succeeded in their intellectual work, while touching politics and the affairs of state. Their endeavours have left their marks on the landscape, in art and in literature.
€ 26,74 -
Full Meridian of Glory
[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble]Dan Brown¿s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small spice of fact into a large dollop of fiction to create an entertaining novel of intrigue, adventure, romance, danger and conspiracy, which have been imaginatively worked together to cook up the successful bestseller. Most interest in the book¿s origins has centred on the sensational religious aspects. Dan Brown has written: ¿All of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact.¿ This gives an air of authenticity to the book. Brown has, however, made up the religious doctrines, or based them on questionable accounts by others. The locations of the actions of The Da Vinci Code are not, however, made up. The present book is the scientific story behind the scene of several of the book¿s actions that take place on the axis of France that passes through Paris. The Paris Meridian is the name of this location. It is the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers ¿ people who study and measure the stars ¿ and geodesists ¿ people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why. It is a true story behind Dan Brown¿s fiction. This is the first English language presentation of this historical material. It is attractively written and it features the story of the community of scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They knew each other well ¿ some were members of the same families, in one caseof four generations. Like scientists everywhere they collaborated and formed alliances; they also split into warring factions and squabbled. They travelled to foreign countries, somehow transcending the national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideas of accuracy, truth and objective, enduring values ¿ save where the reception given to their own work is concerned, when some became blind to high ideals and descended into petty politics. To establish the Paris Meridian, the scientists endured hardship, survived danger and gloried in amazing adventures during a time of turmoil in Europe, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War between France and Spain. Some were accused of witchcraft. Some of their associates lost their heads on the guillotine. Some died of disease. Some won honour and fame. One became the Head of State in France, albeit for no more than a few weeks. Some found dangerous love in foreign countries. One scientist killed in self defence when attacked by a jealous lover, another was himself killed by a jealous lover, a third brought back a woman to France and then jilted her, whereupon she joined a convent. The scientists worked on practical problems of interest to the government and to the people. They also worked on one of the important intellectual problems of the time, a problem of great interest to their fellow scientists all over the world, nothing less than the theory of universal gravitation. They succeeded in their intellectual work, while touching politics and the affairs of state. Their endeavours have left their marks on the landscape, in art and in literature.
€ 32,09 -
The Sun
This is an account of the many ways in which the Sun affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the last few centuries and millennia, and the extent to which we can predict its future impact. The book is the first to integrate astronomical, geological, climatic and social aspects of the Sun. It includes a topical treatment of solar contribution to global warming, and demonstrates how wild and variable is the so-called Solar Constant. Our nearest star is a complex machine which needs to be treated with caution, and this book will equip every reader with the knowledge that is required to understand the benefits and dangers it can bring.
€ 34,99