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Author : Albert Abraham Michelson,Francis Gladheim Pease,F. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Light
ISBN : UOM:39015017323497
Author : Walter A. Shewhart
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486170879
Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. First inexpensive paperback edition.
Author : Amand Lucas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527504417
This book develops an astonishing conceptual connection between many concepts in modern physical sciences and related technologies, all of which have their roots in the Interferometer, a spectroscopic instrument created by Albert Michelson in 1880. After describing the place of the Interferometer amongst other historic, technical inventions, the book discusses the Michelson-Morley experiment (the basis of Einstein’s relativity theories) and the fine details of atomic spectral lines observed by Michelson (the basis of quantum mechanics and Dirac’s relativistic equation). It then covers nuclear magnetic resonance and applications such as atomic clocks, Global Positioning Systems and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, all derived from Michelson's discoveries. It also describes the recent detection, with a km-size Michelson’s Interferometer, of gravitational waves emitted by the merger of neutron star and black hole binaries.
Author : Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521008488
Can we change the past? The surprising answer to this question can be found in the final chapters of this book. Examining the history of the study of time and presenting in detail the modern state of physical research on the subject, this book is a superb overview of a fascinating subject. The figures who have helped to shape our views on time are presented as real people, in the context of their own times and struggles: from Socrates' troubles in Athens, to the experiences of physicists under the former Soviet Union. In addition Novikov details his own experiences with great Russian and Western physicists, such as Sakharov, Zeldovich, Rees and Hawking. Details of modern theories in fields such as the possibility of time machines, anomalous flows of time (at black or white holes) and the possible source of The River of Time are described with authority and clarity.
Author : Allan Franklin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822979197
In Shifting Standards, Allan Franklin provides an overview of notable experiments in particle physics. Using papers published in Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society, as his basis, Franklin details the experiments themselves, their data collection, the events witnessed, and the interpretation of results. From these papers, he distills the dramatic changes to particle physics experimentation from 1894 through 2009. Franklin develops a framework for his analysis, viewing each example according to exclusion and selection of data; possible experimenter bias; details of the experimental apparatus; size of the data set, apparatus, and number of authors; rates of data taking along with analysis and reduction; distinction between ideal and actual experiments; historical accounts of previous experiments; and personal comments and style. From Millikan’s tabletop oil-drop experiment to the Compact Muon Solenoid apparatus measuring approximately 4,000 cubic meters (not including accelerators) and employing over 2,000 authors, Franklin’s study follows the decade-by-decade evolution of scale and standards in particle physics experimentation. As he shows, where once there were only one or two collaborators, now it literally takes a village. Similar changes are seen in data collection: in 1909 Millikan’s data set took 175 oil drops, of which he used 23 to determine the value of e, the charge of the electron; in contrast, the 1988–1992 E791 experiment using the Collider Detector at Fermilab, investigating the hadroproduction of charm quarks, recorded 20 billion events. As we also see, data collection took a quantum leap in the 1950s with the use of computers. Events are now recorded at rates as of a few hundred per second, and analysis rates have progressed similarly. Employing his epistemology of experimentation, Franklin deconstructs each example to view the arguments offered and the correctness of the results. Overall, he finds that despite the metamorphosis of the process, the role of experimentation has remained remarkably consistent through the years: to test theories and provide factual basis for scientific knowledge, to encourage new theories, and to reveal new phenomenon.
Author : Richard Staley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226770574
'Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.
Author : John Howard Sanders
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030109552
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UIUC:30112007624718
Author : Frank R. Hampel,Elvezio M. Ronchetti,Peter J. Rousseeuw,Werner A. Stahel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118150689
The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selectedbooks that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effortto increase global appeal and general circulation. With these newunabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives ofthese works by making them available to future generations ofstatisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "This is a nice book containing a wealth of information, much ofit due to the authors. . . . If an instructor designing such acourse wanted a textbook, this book would be the best choiceavailable. . . . There are many stimulating exercises, and the bookalso contains an excellent index and an extensive list ofreferences." —Technometrics "[This] book should be read carefully by anyone who isinterested in dealing with statistical models in a realisticfashion." —American Scientist Introducing concepts, theory, and applications, RobustStatistics is accessible to a broad audience, avoidingallusions to high-powered mathematics while emphasizing ideas,heuristics, and background. The text covers the approach based onthe influence function (the effect of an outlier on an estimater,for example) and related notions such as the breakdown point. Italso treats the change-of-variance function, fundamental conceptsand results in the framework of estimation of a single parameter,and applications to estimation of covariance matrices andregression parameters.
Author : Dorothy Michelson Livingston
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In this biography of Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931), his daughter shares personal reminiscences, describes her father’s family life — two wives, six children, and a strong temperament — and follows Michelson from his birth in Poland to Jewish parents to the United States where his parents brought him at the age of three, settling in a gold-rush town in Nevada and then in San Francisco. Michelson graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1873, studied in Europe, taught at Clark University, and was head of the department of physics at the University of Chicago from 1894 to 1929. Michelson’s passion was the accurate measurement of the speed of light. In his first experiment, he found it to be 186,320 miles per second, which remained the best value available for a generation, until Michelson himself bettered it. He also invented the interferometer to measure distances using the length of light waves; he measured the meter using the wavelength of cadmium light for the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris; and he used light interference to determine the size of stars. With E. W. Morley, he showed that the absolute motion of the earth through the ether is not measurable, contributing to the development of the theory of relativity. The first American to receive a Nobel prize in science, Michelson received the Nobel prize in physics in 1907 for his optical precision instruments and for the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he made with them. “This work of a devoted daughter who is not herself a scientist catches the humanity of a complex, brilliant man through anecdotes and informed detail.” — The New York Times “From personal recollection, from much reading, and from interviews, Mrs. Livingston has written a well-organized scientific biography of her father... In this book the author has attempted not only to discuss his scientific achievements, but also to portray Michelson the man — his personality and character, strengths and foibles. He was dedicated but demanding and could be arrogant, strict, and severe... This book portrays Michelson not as a legend, but as a real, believable person.” — John N. Howard, Science “[A] beautiful family portrait of Albert Abraham Michelson, America’s first Nobel laureate for science. This biography is more than an intellectual exercise, more than merely of academic or scientific or historical interest. It is almost a religious work that begins with a ‘quest for my father’ and ends with a ‘postscript’ on Michelson’s honors and continuing influence... an intelligently organized, emotionally motivated, intellectually controlled search for meaning in the life and works of a great man of science... Michelson’s youngest daughter by his second marriage, has presented a sensitive, artful, honest, and superbly readable portrait of her father... [which] paints the full life, personal relations, and human figure of Michelson in a form that is a worthy monument to his memory... We learn to know much more intimately where Michelson originated, how he matured, who recognized and helped him, what personal influences shaped his life, when and where his own exertions were influential in shaping the life of physics in the United States and the world... the author has been remarkably judicious and meticulous in handling her material.” — Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., Isis “A non-physicist herself, [the author] has relied heavily on physicists who were familiar with her father’s work and with the field of optics in general, as well as archivists, historians of science, writers and editors. Thus, this thorough biography is the fortunate combination of the efforts of many people, resulting in a valuable reference work as well as a very readable story about one of America’s greatest scientists... Its merit lies in the masterful way the author has melded voluminous information from many sources into a sensitive and realistic portrait of Michelson, showing him as a very real person with strengths and weaknesses, and showing his relation to scientists and the science of his period. It is a book well written and well worth reading by physicists and non-physicists alike.” — Jean M. Bennett, Physics Today “Mrs Livingston, Michelson’s last child by his second wife, is, as she says, neither a physicist nor a writer. Her book nonetheless has something for both the general reader and the specialist. The former will find an interesting and even adventurous life, the latter some gems from unpublished correspondence.” — J. L. Heilbron, The British Journal for the History of Science “The biography is a well-researched, accurate, and reliable work enhanced by the author’s invaluable first-hand experience with the subject. Michelson’s achievements are set against his personal life including his family, relationships to other scientists, and the struggles which inevitably develop in establishing a college science department.” — George T. Ladd, The Science Teacher “This excellent biography by Michelson’s youngest daughter is a judicious mixture of anecdotes and details of the scientific achievements... Dorothy Livingston is to be congratulated on this very readable and informative biography of her talented father.” — W. W. Watson, American Scientist “[An] admirable biography of Michelson the man... most fascinating.” — David R. Topper, Technology and Culture
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Harold Warris Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Spectrum analysis
ISBN : UOM:39015011393470
Author : J. H. Hacsi
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595238798
Modern science has placed before us a vast and ancient universe, one said to contain a billion trillion stars clustered in a hundred billion galaxies and to be thirteen billion years old. Our earthly home, we are told, is a tiny chunk of matter randomly formed, revolving around a mediocre star in the outlying reaches of an unspectacular galaxy. Life on earth developed by chance. We are the end result of a series of accidents. This scientific Story of Creation, though finely detailed, isn't based on cold, hard fact. Scientists proclaim, wihout a shred of proof, that the laws of nature remain constant through both time and space. Upon this rock they build their world. This scientific premise cannot be proved. It must be taken on faith. This book dismisses the scientific premise and explains the universe based on an equally unprovable premise: That we are created in the image of our creator, and create the material world in our image. It then sets out to prove that the universe is not a vast ancient place ruled by chance but rather exists as a reflection, or shadow, or mirror image of us.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Optics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000861430
Includes a directory of members in one issue each year.
