1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694454003321

Autore

Ferrigno Jane G

Titolo

Coastal-change and glaciological map of the northern Ross Ice Shelf area, Antarctica, 1962-2004 [[electronic resource] /] / by Jane G. Ferrigno ... [and others] ; prepared in cooperation with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic map : HTML, digital, PDF file

Collana

Geologic investigations series map ; ; I-2600-H

Soggetti

Coast changes - Antarctica

Glaciers - Antarctica - Ross Ice Shelf

Ice sheets

Maps.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Relief shown by contours and shading.

Title from HTML index page (viewed on May 2, 2008).

Accompanied by pamphlet (iv, 11 p.).

Includes text, graph, and 5 index maps.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references in pamphlet (pages 7-11).



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0103430

Autore

Gasińksi, Leszek

Titolo

Exercises in analysis : part 1. / Leszek Gasińksi, Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2014

Titolo uniforme

Exercises in Analysis. Part 1

Descrizione fisica

X, 1037 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Papageorgiou, Nikolaos Socrates

Soggetti

46-XX - Functional analysis [MSC 2020]

28-XX - Measure and integration [MSC 2020]

30-XX - Functions of a complex variable [MSC 2020]

60G46 - Martingales and classical analysis [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956491903321

Autore

Newton Roger G

Titolo

Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / / Roger G. Newton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

9780674266247

0674266242

9780674041486

0674041488

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

529/.7

Soggetti

Time measurements

Pendulum

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms -- 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers -- 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats -- 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature -- 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping -- 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum -- 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere -- 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks--contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the



precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo's Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces--from marine chronometers to atomic clocks--based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum's oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton's equations of motion, from Pythagoras' theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday's field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo's Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles Notes References Index Reviews of this book: The range of things that measure time, from living creatures to atomic clocks, brackets Newton's intriguing narrative of time's connections, in the middle of which stands Galileo's famous discovery about pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time.--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist