Circles Around The Sun

Author : Jens M. Knudsen,Poul G. Hjorth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 354067652X

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Elements of Newtonian Mechanics by Jens M. Knudsen,Poul G. Hjorth Pdf

In the third edition a number of minor misprints that appeared in the second edition have have been corrected. Furthermore, 17 new problems have been added, at the end of chapters 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14. The answers to these 17 problems have not been listed in the 'Answers' section at the end of the book. This will permit the problems to be used as hand-in problems or perhaps in mid-term exams. JMK €9 PGH Copenhagen May 2000 Preface to the Second Edition In the second edition, a number of misprints that appeared in the first edition have been corrected. In addition to this, we have made improvements based on the experience gathered in the use of the first English edition of the book in the introductory course in physics at the University of Copenhagen. A chapter introducing nonlinear dynamics has been added. The purpose of this chapter is to provide supplementary reading for the students who are interested in this area of active research, where Newtonian mechanics plays an essential role. The students who wish to dig deeper, should consult texts dedicated to the study of nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos. The literature list at the end of this book contains several references for the topic.

Author : Molly McCloskey
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468303919

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Circles Around the Sun by Molly McCloskey Pdf

An author attempts to uncover who her older brother was before schizophrenia took hold of him in this “clear-eyed and heartbreaking” memoir (Publishers Weekly). Molly McClosky’s brother Mike was fourteen when she was born. So far apart in age, she barely knew him before schizophrenia took hold of him at the age of twenty-three. Within a few years, Mike’s world began to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother and grandmother, and interviewing old friends of Mike's, Molly began to piece together a picture of her brother's life, before and after the illness struck—the story of how a gifted and well-liked student and athlete was overtaken by a terrible illness that rendered him unrecognizable. Now she tells that story, which is also the story of her own demons and of the ways in which a seemingly perfect family can slowly fall apart, and in the end, regroup.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152057420

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A Birthday Cake is No Ordinary Cake by Anonim Pdf

A lyrical recipe uses seasonal changes to explain to a child the time that passes between one birthday and the next. Includes a recipe for more traditional birthday cake, as well as information about the passage of time and how it is revealed through trees.

Author : Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771383028

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Shapes in Math, Science and Nature by Catherine Sheldrick Ross Pdf

The three most basic shapes: squares, triangles and circles are all around us, from the natural world to the one we've engineered. Full of fascinating facts about these shapes and their 3D counterparts, Shapes in Math, Science and Nature introduces young readers to the basics of geometry and reveals its applications at home, school and everywhere in between. Puzzles and activities add to the fun factor.

Author : Yunbao Ge (葛云保)
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811677793

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From Geocentric to Heliocentric: How Discoveries Are Made by Yunbao Ge (葛云保) Pdf

Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes that the Earth goes around the sun? Even to this day, no one has. However, 500 and even 2000 years ago, some astronomers managed to point out that this is the case. At that time, people’s range of activities was strictly confined, the technology and tools used were extremely primitive, and many of the mathematical methods used today had not been developed. How did those astronomers make and verify this discovery? This book explains this exciting demonstration process. It enables anyone with a basic junior-high-school knowledge of geometry and a certain degree of spatial imagination to understand this and other interesting discoveries in the solar system. By demonstrating this interesting process, the book not only satisfies readers' curiosity using the simplest mathematics, but also inspires them to explore the new and unknown world.

Author : Nicolaus Copernicus,Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler,René Descartes,Isaac Newton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780241360644

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The Dawn of Modern Cosmology by Nicolaus Copernicus,Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler,René Descartes,Isaac Newton Pdf

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history. Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

Author : Diane Ronngren
Publisher : ETC Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781930038189

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Lunar Nodes by Diane Ronngren Pdf

What really matters? What is my purpose? Why is this happening to me? When will my life change? When will I be happy and successful?Written for the serious student or professional astrologer, Lunar Nodes: Keys to Emotions and Life Experience offers a glimpse into the soul. Follow detailed sample delineations to identify internal experience, emotional growth, reactive responses to events and to others, and to discover the basis for instinctive choices and judgments. This book opens up a new world of personalized interpretations!Explore the intricate network of aspects between the natal Lunar Nodes, Moon and every planet and sensitive point in a chart!Identify key emotions and life experiences that impact the future.Learn a totally new technique for delineating transiting Lunar Nodes, Lunar Node cycles and Lunar Node Returns!Target current and future trends to maximize opportunities for personal growth, relationships, accomplishment?success!Use the extraordinary ?Lunar Nodes Graphic Wheel? and the 100-year ?At-A-Glance Lunar Nodes Ephemeris? to quickly and easily identify individual personal growth patterns!?Each of us has sharply defined images of our personal reality?the people, circumstances, choices we have made, and times we identify as turning points in our journey. Lunar Nodes hold the keys to understanding our potential for spiritual/personal growth. Transiting Nodes bring opportunities to consciously learn from and respond to the rhythms of our lives, to create rich memories and relationships that nurture our hunger for belonging and accomplishment.?

Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre,Jürgen Renn,Urs Schoepflin
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034880992

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The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by Wolfgang Lefèvre,Jürgen Renn,Urs Schoepflin Pdf

The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.

Author : Stanislaw D. Glazek,Seymour B. Sarason
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483360072

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Productive Learning by Stanislaw D. Glazek,Seymour B. Sarason Pdf

This unique resource promotes the creation of productive learning contexts, which allow students to bring all that they are to the learning process, as essential to successful educational reform.

Author : Bob McDonald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781982106867

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An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space by Bob McDonald Pdf

Beloved science commentator Bob McDonald takes us on a tour of our galaxy, unraveling the mysteries of the universe and helping us navigate our place among the stars. How big is our galaxy? Is there life on those distant planets? Are we really made of star dust? And where do stars even come from? In An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space, we finally have the answers to all those questions and more. With clarity, wisdom, and a great deal of enthusiasm, McDonald explores the curiosities of the big blue planet we call home as well as our galactic neighbours—from Martian caves to storm clouds on Jupiter to the nebulae at the far end of the universe. So if you’re pondering how to become an astronaut, or what dark matter really is, or how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, look no further. Through a captivating mix of stories, experiments, and illustrations, McDonald walks us through space exploration past and present, and reveals what we can look forward to in the future. An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space is sure to satisfy science readers of all ages, and to remind us earthbound terrestrials just how special our place in the universe truly is.

Author : Bruce S. Eastwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351744188

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The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe by Bruce S. Eastwood Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century, what astronomy was there in the medieval West? While we know of developments in computus, which calculated with solar and lunar cycles to create Christian calendars, and in monastic time-telling by the stars, was anything known of the five planets? Using glosses, commentaries, and diagrams to the early manuscripts of four classical Latin authors - Pliny, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, and Calcidius - Bruce Eastwood provides evidence for the extensive development of the sixth liberal art, astronomy, from the time of Charlemagne forward, with a particular focus on the diagrams used and invented by Carolingian and later scholars. Learning to understand the motions of planets in terms of spatial, or geometrical, arrangement, they mined these Roman writings for astronomical and cosmological doctrines, in the process not only absorbing but also creating models of planetary motions. What they accomplished over three centuries was to establish a basic set of models that showed the reasoned order of the planets in the heavens.

Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : HARVARD:HNYGQT

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Old and New Astronomy by Richard Anthony Proctor Pdf

Author : Milton K. Munitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439119280

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Theories of the Universe by Milton K. Munitz Pdf

The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.

Author : Kurt Fischer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319005874

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Relativity for Everyone by Kurt Fischer Pdf

This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations are replaced with figures and thought experiments, the text being formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the gist intuitively. The first part of the book focuses on the essentials of special relativity. Explanations are provided of the famous equivalence between mass and energy and of why Einstein was able to use the theory of electrodynamics as a template for his "electrodynamics of moving bodies", simply because besides the speed of light, the electric charge itself is also absolute, leading to the relativity of other physical quantities. General relativity is then introduced, mainly with the help of thought experiments. Reference is made to the previously introduced special relativity and the equivalence principle and, using many figures, it is explained how space-time is bending under gravity. The climax of the book comes with the Einstein equations of gravity that describe the way in which matter bends space-time. The reader is shown how to obtain the famous Schwarzschild solution. There follows a numerically correct and yet intuitive explanation of the classic effects such as light bending or the movement of the perihelion. The book concludes by explaining the Friedmann model of the big bang and why the theory of gravity does not fit with quantum theory.

Author : Gayatri Moorthy
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788125951605

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Learning Science – 4 by Gayatri Moorthy Pdf

Learning Science series consists of five well-written textbooks for classes 1-5. The books have been designed for the schools affiliated to ICSE Board. The series adopts an innovative approach to relate learning with the environment. A lot of thought process has gone into the making of these books by renowned and respectable authors. The aim of the series is to develop scientific skills like observing, inferring and predicting among the young learners and ensuring their maximum involvement at the same time.