The wines of Canada / / Rod Phillips

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467822903321
• Autore: Phillips Roderick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : Infinite Ideas, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-910902-58-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
• Collana: The Classic Wine Library
• Disciplina: 641.220971
• Soggetti: Wine and wine making - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Seven tales of the pendulum / / Gregory Baker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788586003321
• Autore: Baker Gregory L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-19-100484-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 227 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 531.324
• Soggetti: Pendulum; Gravity; Rotational motion (Rigid dynamics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: PART I: INTRODUCTION; What is a Pendulum?; PART II: SEVEN TALES OF ; THE PENDULUM; 1. Pendulums measure the earth; 2. Pendulums keep Time; 3. Pendulums measure fundamental forces; 4. Pendulums swing high; 5. Pendulums go chaotic; 6. Pendulums stick together; 7. Pendulums in the small; PART III: CONCLUSION; Odds and the End; Further Reading; Glossary of Terms
• Sommario/riassunto: Using graphs, figures & narrative to explain scientific ideas & models, Gregory Baker gives a lucid account of the physics of the pendulum, showing the reader how the context of the pendulum progresses over 4 centuries from that of a simple system of classical physics, to that of a chaotic system, & then to that of a modern quantum system.