Author: Syun-Ichi AkasofuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysicists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Sydney Chapman, Eighty
Author: Syun-Ichi AkasofuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysicists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Sydney Chapman, Eighty
Author: Globalizing Polar Science
Author: R. LauniusPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230114652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Author: Wireless and Empire
Author: Aitor AnduagaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568058
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Although the product of a self-proclaimed consensus politics, the British Empire was always based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Using the metaphor of a thread of five pieces representing the categories science, industry, government, the military, and the education, this is the first book to study the relations between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period. It is also the first to make full use of the abundant archive material and rich sources existing in Britain and the Dominions. The book examines the evolving connection between the development of imperial radio communications and atmospheric physics; the expansion and strength of the British radio industry and its relationship with the elucidation of the ionosphere; and the different extent to which Australia, Canada and New Zealand managed to emulate the British model of radio R&D in the interwar years. The book ends with a highly original and provocative epilogue: 'The realist interpretation of the atmosphere'.
Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora
Author: Syun-Ichi AkasofuPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387450971
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book describes the history of the progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success in some instances. The author, a distinguished auroral scientist, fully describes his experiences in characterizing and explaining auroral phenomena. The volume also includes beautiful full-color photos of the aurora.
Physics of the Magnetopause
Author: Paul SongPublisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 90. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of our current observational knowledge and theoretical understanding of the outer boundary of the Earth's magnetic field: the magnetopause. All mass, momentum, and energy transferred from the solar-wind plasma flow into the geomagnetic cavity must cross the magnetopause. The magnetopause itself is closely coupled to the high-latitude ionosphere. For this reason, the volume should be of interest not only to scientists and students concerned with the physics of the magnetopause proper but also to magnetospheric, ionospheric, and upper atmospheric workers in general. Much of the material in the volume is relevant to other planetary magnetopauses and, as an example of an interface between two collisionless plasmas, the Earth's magnetopause is also relevant in solar, interplanetary, cosmic, and laboratory plasma physics.
Sydney Chapman, Eighty
Author: Syun-Ichi AkasofuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Kinetic Theory
Author: S. G. BrushPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483145859
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Kinetic Theory, Volume 3: The Chapman-Enskog Solution of the Transport Equation for Moderately Dense Gases describes the Chapman-Enskog solution of the transport equation for moderately dense gases. Topics covered range from the propagation of sound in monatomic gases to the kinetic theory of simple and composite monatomic gases and generalizations of the theory to higher densities. The application of kinetic theory to the determination of intermolecular forces is also discussed. This volume is divided into two sections and begins with an introduction to the work of Hilbert, Chapman, and Enskog that led to the formulation of the Chapman-Enskog theory. The Chapman-Enskog results are then compared with those of earlier theories with respect to viscosity, heat conduction, diffusion, and thermal diffusion. Subsequent chapters focus on alternatives to the Chapman-Enskog method and some mathematical problems; foundations of the kinetic theory of gases; and kinetic theory of processes in dilute gases and of heat conduction, viscosity, and self-diffusion in compressed gases and liquids. This book should be of interest to graduate students and others undertaking research in kinetic theory.
History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact
Author: Peter O. K. KrehlPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540304215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena.