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Let there be light [[electronic resource] ] : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Let there be light [[electronic resource] ] : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Autore Montwill Alex
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Imperial College Press
Descrizione fisica xxxiii, 595 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Disciplina 535
Altri autori (Persone) BreslinAnn
Soggetto topico Light
Electromagnetic waves
Physics - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-86094-851-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ch. 1. Introducing light. 1.1. The perception of light through the ages. 1.2. Colours. 1.3. Measuring the speed of light. 1.4. The process of vision. 1.5. The nature of light. 1.6. The birth of quantum mechanics -- ch. 2. Geometrical optics: reflection. 2.1. Fermat's law. 2.2. Mirrors -- ch. 3. Geometrical optics: refraction. 3.1. Refraction. 3.2. Lenses. 3.4. Objects and images: converging lenses. 3.5. Lens combinations. 3.6. The eye. 3.7. Making visible what the eye cannot see. 3.8. Combinations of lenses. 3.9. A final note on Fermat's principle -- ch. 4. Light from afar - astronomy. 4.1. The earth. 4.2. The Moon. 4.3. Sizes and distances. 4.4. The planets. 4.5. The Copernican revolution. 4.6. After Copernicus. 4.7. The solar system in perspective -- ch. 5. Light from the past - astrophysics. 5.1. The birth of astrophysics. 5.2. The methods of astrophysics. 5.3. Other stars and their 'solar systems'. 5.4. Reconstructing the past. 5.5. The life and death of a star -- ch. 6. Introducing waves. 6.1 Waves - the basic means of communication. 6.2. The mathematics of a travelling wave. 6.3. The superposition of waves. 6.4. Applying the superposition principle. 6.5. Forced oscillations and resonance. 6.6. Resonance - a part of life. 6.7. Diffraction - waves can bend around corners. 6.8. The magic of sine and the simplicity of nature -- ch. 7. Sound waves. 7.1. Sound and hearing. 7.2. Sound as a tool. 7.3. Superposition of sound waves. 7.4. Sound intensity. 7.5. Other sensations. 7.6. Strings and pipes in music. 7.7. The Doppler effect -- ch. 8. Light as a wave. 8.1. Light as a wave. 8.2. Wave properties which do not make reference to a medium. 8.3. Specifically light. 8.4. Is there a limit to what we can distinguish? 8.5. Other electromagnetic waves. 8.6. Light from two sources. 8.7. Interference as a tool. 8.8. Thin films. 8.9. Diffraction gratings. 8.10. Other 'lights'. 8.11. Coherence. 8.12. Polarisation -- ch. 9. Making images. 9.1. Creating images. 9.2. Holography -- ch. 10. There was electricity, there was magnetism, and then there was light ... 10.1. The mystery of 'action at a distance'. 10.2. 'Fields of force'. 10.3. Magnetism. 10.4. Electrodynamics. 10.5. Getting electric charges to move with the help of magnetism. 10.6. Maxwell's synthesis. 10.7. Then there was light -- ch. 11. 'Atoms of light' - the birth of quantum theory. 11.1. Emission of energy by radiation. 11.2. Classical theoretical models of the blackbody radiation spectrum. 11.3. Max Planck enters the scene. 11.4. Planck's 'act of despair'. 11.5. From an idea to a formula - the mathematical journey -- ch. 12. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.1. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.2. Matrix mechanics. 12.3. Order does matter. 12.4. Wave mechanics. 12.5. Generalised quantum mechanics. 12.6. Quantum reality -- ch. 13. Atoms of light acting as particles. 13.1. The photoelectric effect. 13.2. The Compton effect - more evidence -- ch. 14. Atoms of light behaving as waves. 14.1. Photons one at a time. 14.2. Feynman's 'strange theory of the photon' -- ch. 15. Relativity pt. 1: how it began. 15.1. Space and time. 15.2. 'Dogmatic rigidity'. 15.3. Looking for the ether. 15.4. Symmetry. 15.5. The first postulate. 15.6. The second postulate. 15.7. The fourth dimension. 15.8. A philosophical interlude -- ch. 16. Relativity pt. 2: verifiable predictions. 16.1. Time dilation. 16.2. E = mc2, the most famous result of all. 16.3. The steps from symmetry to nuclear energy. 16.4. Working with relativity -- ch. 17. Epilogue. 17.1. Making matter out of energy. 17.2. A unified theory of weak and electromagnetic forces.
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Montwill Alex  
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Let there be light [[electronic resource] ] : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Let there be light [[electronic resource] ] : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Autore Montwill Alex
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Imperial College Press
Descrizione fisica xxxiii, 595 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Disciplina 535
Altri autori (Persone) BreslinAnn
Soggetto topico Light
Electromagnetic waves
Physics - History
ISBN 1-86094-851-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ch. 1. Introducing light. 1.1. The perception of light through the ages. 1.2. Colours. 1.3. Measuring the speed of light. 1.4. The process of vision. 1.5. The nature of light. 1.6. The birth of quantum mechanics -- ch. 2. Geometrical optics: reflection. 2.1. Fermat's law. 2.2. Mirrors -- ch. 3. Geometrical optics: refraction. 3.1. Refraction. 3.2. Lenses. 3.4. Objects and images: converging lenses. 3.5. Lens combinations. 3.6. The eye. 3.7. Making visible what the eye cannot see. 3.8. Combinations of lenses. 3.9. A final note on Fermat's principle -- ch. 4. Light from afar - astronomy. 4.1. The earth. 4.2. The Moon. 4.3. Sizes and distances. 4.4. The planets. 4.5. The Copernican revolution. 4.6. After Copernicus. 4.7. The solar system in perspective -- ch. 5. Light from the past - astrophysics. 5.1. The birth of astrophysics. 5.2. The methods of astrophysics. 5.3. Other stars and their 'solar systems'. 5.4. Reconstructing the past. 5.5. The life and death of a star -- ch. 6. Introducing waves. 6.1 Waves - the basic means of communication. 6.2. The mathematics of a travelling wave. 6.3. The superposition of waves. 6.4. Applying the superposition principle. 6.5. Forced oscillations and resonance. 6.6. Resonance - a part of life. 6.7. Diffraction - waves can bend around corners. 6.8. The magic of sine and the simplicity of nature -- ch. 7. Sound waves. 7.1. Sound and hearing. 7.2. Sound as a tool. 7.3. Superposition of sound waves. 7.4. Sound intensity. 7.5. Other sensations. 7.6. Strings and pipes in music. 7.7. The Doppler effect -- ch. 8. Light as a wave. 8.1. Light as a wave. 8.2. Wave properties which do not make reference to a medium. 8.3. Specifically light. 8.4. Is there a limit to what we can distinguish? 8.5. Other electromagnetic waves. 8.6. Light from two sources. 8.7. Interference as a tool. 8.8. Thin films. 8.9. Diffraction gratings. 8.10. Other 'lights'. 8.11. Coherence. 8.12. Polarisation -- ch. 9. Making images. 9.1. Creating images. 9.2. Holography -- ch. 10. There was electricity, there was magnetism, and then there was light ... 10.1. The mystery of 'action at a distance'. 10.2. 'Fields of force'. 10.3. Magnetism. 10.4. Electrodynamics. 10.5. Getting electric charges to move with the help of magnetism. 10.6. Maxwell's synthesis. 10.7. Then there was light -- ch. 11. 'Atoms of light' - the birth of quantum theory. 11.1. Emission of energy by radiation. 11.2. Classical theoretical models of the blackbody radiation spectrum. 11.3. Max Planck enters the scene. 11.4. Planck's 'act of despair'. 11.5. From an idea to a formula - the mathematical journey -- ch. 12. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.1. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.2. Matrix mechanics. 12.3. Order does matter. 12.4. Wave mechanics. 12.5. Generalised quantum mechanics. 12.6. Quantum reality -- ch. 13. Atoms of light acting as particles. 13.1. The photoelectric effect. 13.2. The Compton effect - more evidence -- ch. 14. Atoms of light behaving as waves. 14.1. Photons one at a time. 14.2. Feynman's 'strange theory of the photon' -- ch. 15. Relativity pt. 1: how it began. 15.1. Space and time. 15.2. 'Dogmatic rigidity'. 15.3. Looking for the ether. 15.4. Symmetry. 15.5. The first postulate. 15.6. The second postulate. 15.7. The fourth dimension. 15.8. A philosophical interlude -- ch. 16. Relativity pt. 2: verifiable predictions. 16.1. Time dilation. 16.2. E = mc2, the most famous result of all. 16.3. The steps from symmetry to nuclear energy. 16.4. Working with relativity -- ch. 17. Epilogue. 17.1. Making matter out of energy. 17.2. A unified theory of weak and electromagnetic forces.
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Let there be light : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Let there be light : the story of light from atoms to galaxies / / Alex Montwill & Ann Breslin
Autore Montwill Alex
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Imperial College Press
Descrizione fisica xxxiii, 595 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Disciplina 535
Altri autori (Persone) BreslinAnn
Soggetto topico Light
Electromagnetic waves
Physics - History
ISBN 1-86094-851-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ch. 1. Introducing light. 1.1. The perception of light through the ages. 1.2. Colours. 1.3. Measuring the speed of light. 1.4. The process of vision. 1.5. The nature of light. 1.6. The birth of quantum mechanics -- ch. 2. Geometrical optics: reflection. 2.1. Fermat's law. 2.2. Mirrors -- ch. 3. Geometrical optics: refraction. 3.1. Refraction. 3.2. Lenses. 3.4. Objects and images: converging lenses. 3.5. Lens combinations. 3.6. The eye. 3.7. Making visible what the eye cannot see. 3.8. Combinations of lenses. 3.9. A final note on Fermat's principle -- ch. 4. Light from afar - astronomy. 4.1. The earth. 4.2. The Moon. 4.3. Sizes and distances. 4.4. The planets. 4.5. The Copernican revolution. 4.6. After Copernicus. 4.7. The solar system in perspective -- ch. 5. Light from the past - astrophysics. 5.1. The birth of astrophysics. 5.2. The methods of astrophysics. 5.3. Other stars and their 'solar systems'. 5.4. Reconstructing the past. 5.5. The life and death of a star -- ch. 6. Introducing waves. 6.1 Waves - the basic means of communication. 6.2. The mathematics of a travelling wave. 6.3. The superposition of waves. 6.4. Applying the superposition principle. 6.5. Forced oscillations and resonance. 6.6. Resonance - a part of life. 6.7. Diffraction - waves can bend around corners. 6.8. The magic of sine and the simplicity of nature -- ch. 7. Sound waves. 7.1. Sound and hearing. 7.2. Sound as a tool. 7.3. Superposition of sound waves. 7.4. Sound intensity. 7.5. Other sensations. 7.6. Strings and pipes in music. 7.7. The Doppler effect -- ch. 8. Light as a wave. 8.1. Light as a wave. 8.2. Wave properties which do not make reference to a medium. 8.3. Specifically light. 8.4. Is there a limit to what we can distinguish? 8.5. Other electromagnetic waves. 8.6. Light from two sources. 8.7. Interference as a tool. 8.8. Thin films. 8.9. Diffraction gratings. 8.10. Other 'lights'. 8.11. Coherence. 8.12. Polarisation -- ch. 9. Making images. 9.1. Creating images. 9.2. Holography -- ch. 10. There was electricity, there was magnetism, and then there was light ... 10.1. The mystery of 'action at a distance'. 10.2. 'Fields of force'. 10.3. Magnetism. 10.4. Electrodynamics. 10.5. Getting electric charges to move with the help of magnetism. 10.6. Maxwell's synthesis. 10.7. Then there was light -- ch. 11. 'Atoms of light' - the birth of quantum theory. 11.1. Emission of energy by radiation. 11.2. Classical theoretical models of the blackbody radiation spectrum. 11.3. Max Planck enters the scene. 11.4. Planck's 'act of despair'. 11.5. From an idea to a formula - the mathematical journey -- ch. 12. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.1. The development of quantum mechanics. 12.2. Matrix mechanics. 12.3. Order does matter. 12.4. Wave mechanics. 12.5. Generalised quantum mechanics. 12.6. Quantum reality -- ch. 13. Atoms of light acting as particles. 13.1. The photoelectric effect. 13.2. The Compton effect - more evidence -- ch. 14. Atoms of light behaving as waves. 14.1. Photons one at a time. 14.2. Feynman's 'strange theory of the photon' -- ch. 15. Relativity pt. 1: how it began. 15.1. Space and time. 15.2. 'Dogmatic rigidity'. 15.3. Looking for the ether. 15.4. Symmetry. 15.5. The first postulate. 15.6. The second postulate. 15.7. The fourth dimension. 15.8. A philosophical interlude -- ch. 16. Relativity pt. 2: verifiable predictions. 16.1. Time dilation. 16.2. E = mc2, the most famous result of all. 16.3. The steps from symmetry to nuclear energy. 16.4. Working with relativity -- ch. 17. Epilogue. 17.1. Making matter out of energy. 17.2. A unified theory of weak and electromagnetic forces.
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Montwill Alex  
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Light / / by Steffi Cavell-Clarke
Light / / by Steffi Cavell-Clarke
Autore Cavell-Clarke Steffi
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, NY : , : KidHaven Publishing, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (26 pages)
Disciplina 535
Collana First Science
Soggetto topico Light
ISBN 1-5345-2075-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910158613103321
Cavell-Clarke Steffi  
New York, NY : , : KidHaven Publishing, , [2017]
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Light / R.W. Ditchburn
Light / R.W. Ditchburn
Autore Ditchburn, Robert W.
Edizione [3rd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : Academic Press, Inc., 1976
Descrizione fisica xxv, 775 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Soggetto topico Light
ISBN 0122181506
Classificazione 53.0.64
53.2.4
53.2.6
535
QC355.2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001056919707536
Ditchburn, Robert W.  
London : Academic Press, Inc., 1976
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Light and color in the outdoors / / Marcel Minnaert
Light and color in the outdoors / / Marcel Minnaert
Autore Minnaert M. G. J (Marcel Gilles Jozef), <1893-1970>
Edizione [First edition 1993.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvi, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina 770
Altri autori (Persone) SeymourLen
Soggetto topico Color
Light
ISBN 1-4612-2722-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1 Light and Shadows -- 2 Reflection of Light -- 3 Refraction of Light -- 4 The Curvature of Light Rays in the Atmosphere -- 5 The Measurement of Intensity and Brightness of Light -- 6 The Eye -- 7 Colors -- 8 Afterimages and Contrast Phenomena -- 9 Judging Shape and Motion -- 10 Rainbows, Halos, and Coronas -- 11 Light and Color of the Sky -- 12 Light and Color in the Landscape -- 13 Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones -- Appendix A . Measuring Angles out of Doors -- Appendix B. Photographing Natural Phenomena -- Appendix C. Further Notes and References.
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Minnaert M. G. J (Marcel Gilles Jozef), <1893-1970>  
New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993
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Light and color in the outdoors / / Marcel Minnaert
Light and color in the outdoors / / Marcel Minnaert
Autore Minnaert M. G. J (Marcel Gilles Jozef), <1893-1970>
Edizione [First edition 1993.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvi, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina 770
Altri autori (Persone) SeymourLen
Soggetto topico Color
Light
ISBN 1-4612-2722-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1 Light and Shadows -- 2 Reflection of Light -- 3 Refraction of Light -- 4 The Curvature of Light Rays in the Atmosphere -- 5 The Measurement of Intensity and Brightness of Light -- 6 The Eye -- 7 Colors -- 8 Afterimages and Contrast Phenomena -- 9 Judging Shape and Motion -- 10 Rainbows, Halos, and Coronas -- 11 Light and Color of the Sky -- 12 Light and Color in the Landscape -- 13 Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones -- Appendix A . Measuring Angles out of Doors -- Appendix B. Photographing Natural Phenomena -- Appendix C. Further Notes and References.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910827760103321
Minnaert M. G. J (Marcel Gilles Jozef), <1893-1970>  
New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993
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Light and photomedia : a new history and future of the photographic image / / Jai McKenzie
Light and photomedia : a new history and future of the photographic image / / Jai McKenzie
Autore McKenzie Jai
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (126 pages)
Disciplina 770.1
Collana International library of visual culture
Soggetto topico Images, Photographic
Photography
Light
Photography & photographs
ISBN 0-7556-0344-3
1-00-310360-X
1-000-21170-3
1-003-10360-X
1-78673-965-8
0-85773-616-7
Classificazione 21.42
9,11
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: 1. Early image machines: The invention of photography c.1830-c.1870 -- Luminous beginnings -- Light source: the origin of the image machines -- A sociological perspective -- Light-space-time -- Image-space -- Seeing machines -- Ever brighter: moving on from the glow of the early image machines -- 2. Analogue image machines c.1870-c.1990 -- Super vision: the analogue era -- Standing still: the instantaneous capture of light-time -- Moving quickly: Photofuturism and light-time -- Cinematic light-time -- Still and moving light-time -- Light-space in the analogue era -- You press the button: forming image-spaces everywhere -- At the movies: image-spaces in cinema -- Proofs of reality -- Photomontage -- Video art -- Leap into the void -- 3. Digital image machines c.1990-2013 -- Dream machines: technology at the speed of light -- Image-spaces of the digital era: `all that we see or seem' -- Light up: the screen space of digital photomedia.
Contents note continued: At the speed of light -- Slow motion: light-time in the digital era -- Void space: digital photomedia and the loss of physical reality -- The digital image-space: a matter of light-space-time -- 4. Future image machines 2039: two hundred years after the invention of photography -- The future? -- The photomedia technology of tomorrow -- The artist of 2039 -- Connected to nothing -- In the `photographic universe' -- At the speed of light -- The future is here.
Altri titoli varianti Light and photomedia
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McKenzie Jai  
London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019
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Light scattering functions for small particles : with applications in astronomy / N.C. Wickramasinghe
Light scattering functions for small particles : with applications in astronomy / N.C. Wickramasinghe
Autore Wickramasinghe, N.
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : Adam Hilger Ltd, 1973
Descrizione fisica 506 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Soggetto topico Interstellar matter
Light
Classificazione 52.9.56
523.01'5'4
QB790
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001057409707536
Wickramasinghe, N.  
London : Adam Hilger Ltd, 1973
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Light-matter interaction : a crash course for students of optics, photonics and materials science / / Olaf Stenzel
Light-matter interaction : a crash course for students of optics, photonics and materials science / / Olaf Stenzel
Autore Stenzel O (Olaf)
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (558 pages)
Disciplina 621.365
Collana UNITEXT for Physics
Soggetto topico Photonics
Light
Optics
ISBN 9783030871444
9783030871437
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910544871103321
Stenzel O (Olaf)  
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
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