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Part of the series Stop faking it! : finally understanding science so you can teach it;Robertson, William C. Stop faking it!
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• Under pressure — It’s a gas, gas, yeah — Balloons and other things that sometimes float — A few loose ends — Small-scale weather — Large-scale weather — The severe stuff.

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• Weather — Study and teaching — Popular works.
• Science — Study and teaching — Popular works.
• Science — Methodology — Popular works.
• Temps (Météorologie) — Étude et enseignement — Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
• Sciences — Étude et enseignement — Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
• Sciences — Méthodologie — Ouvrages de vulgarisation.

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• Introduction — Making music : how sound is made — The sound of music : perception — Good vibes : waves in motion — Making music beautiful : complex musical tones — The well-tempered scale — Down melody lane with chords and chord sequences — You’ve gotta have rhythm : rhythm and types of music — Why a piano is not a harpsichord — The stringed instruments: making music with the violin and guitar — The brass instruments : trumpet and trombone — The woodwinds : clarinet and saxophone — The most versatile instrument : the singing voice — Electronic music — Making a midi recording — Acoustics of concert halls and studios — Epilogue.
• Barry Parker’s tour of the physics of music details the science of how instruments, the acoustics of rooms, electronics, and humans create and alter the varied sounds we hear. Using physics, he discusses the history of music, how sounds are made and perceived, and the various effects of acting on sounds. He demonstrates what acoustics can teach us about quantum theory and explains the relationship between harmonies and the theory of waves.–[book jacket]

Subjects:

• Vibration.
• Sound-waves.
• Sound.
• Wave-motion, Theory of.
• Music — Acoustics and physics.
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• Musik. swd
• Musikalische Akustik. swd
• Musikinstrument. swd
• Physik. swd
• Tonerzeugung. swd
• Welle. swd

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Getting started — Voyage to a black hole — Einstein’s special theory of relativity — Racing light — Redefining space and time — A new common sense — Einstein’s general theory of relativity — Newton’s absurdity — Redefining gravity — Implications of relativity — Black holes — The expanding universe — Epilogue : your indelible mark on the universe.
• Explains the fundamental principles of relativity, describing such aspects of the theory as black holes, curvature of spacetime, and singularity, as well as its practical applications in everyday life.

Subjects:

• Relativity (Physics) — Popular works.
• Relativity (Physics) fast (OCoLC)fst01093604
• Relativitätstheorie. gnd
• Popular works. fast (OCoLC)fst01423846

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Part of the series Undergraduate lecture notes in physics;Undergraduate lecture notes in physics.
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• Gravitation and Newton’s laws — Entropy, statistical physics, and information — Electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations — Electromagnetic waves — Special theory of relativity — Atoms and quantum theory — Quantum electrodynamics — Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics — Four fundamental forces — General relativity and cosmology — Unification of the forces of nature — Physics and life.

Subjects:

• Physics.
• Physics — History.
• Physics. fast (OCoLC)fst01063025
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• From drought to deluge : normal climate in the West — The 1861-1862 floods : lessons lost — The great droughts of the twentieth century — Why is climate so variable in the West? — Reading the past : the Earth’s history books — From ice to fire : into the Holocene — The long drought of the mid-Holocene — Ice returns : the neoglaciation — The great medieval drought — The little ice age : megafloods and climate swings — Why climate changes : cycles and oscillations — The hydraulic era : salmon and dams — Future climate change and the American West — What the past tells us about tomorrow.

Subjects:

• Climatic changes — West (U.S.) — Forecasting.
• Climatic changes — Environmental aspects — West (U.S.)
• Hydrology — West (U.S.)

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• First encounters in the climate casino — A tale of two lakes — The economic origins of climate change — Future climate change — Tipping points in the climate casino — From climate change to impacts — The fate of farming — The impact on human health — Perils for the oceans — Intensification of hurricanes — Wildlife and species loss — Adding up the damages from climate change — Dealing with climate change: adaptation and geoengineering — Slowing climate change by reducing emissions: mitigation — The costs of slowing climate change — Discounting and the value of time — Historical perspectives on climate policy — Climate policy by balancing costs and benefits — The central role of carbon prices — Climate-change policies at the national level — From national to harmonized international policies — Second best and beyond — New technologies for a low-carbon economy — Climate science and its critics — Public opinion on climate change — Obstacles to climate-change policies.

Subjects:

• Climatic changes — Effect of human beings on.
• Climatic changes — Environmental aspects.
• Climatic changes — Social aspects.
• Environmental policy.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366) and index.
• About the author — Prologue — Part 1: Einstein Discovered: Special Relativity, E=mc2, And Spacetime: — From unknown to revolutionary — Great conflict — Two postulates — New reality — Shrinking of time — Simultaneity and the squeezing of space — World’s most famous equation — Spacetime — Part 2: Einstein Revealed: General Relativity, Gravity, And The Cosmos: — Einstein’s dream — Happiest thought of my life — Warping of space and time — Stitching spacetime — What is spacetime curvature? — Einstein’s masterpiece — Universe revealed — In the beginning — Epilogue — Appendix A — Appendix B — Appendix C — Appendix D — Appendix E — Acknowledgements — Notes with sources — Figure credits — Also by Ira Mark Egdall — Further reading — Index.
• Overview: Einstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein’s ideas but never thought they could. Told with humor, enthusiasm, and rare clarity, this entertaining book reveals how a former high school drop-out revolutionized our understanding of space and time. From E=mc2 and everyday time travel to black holes and the big bang, Einstein Relatively Simple takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on a mind-boggling journey through the depths of Einstein’s universe. Along the way, we track Einstein through the perils and triumphs of his life-follow his thinking, his logic, and his insights-and chronicle the audacity, imagination, and sheer genius of the man recognized as the greatest scientist of the modern era. In Part I on special relativity we learn how time slows and space shrinks with motion, and how mass and energy are equivalent. Part II on general relativity reveals a cosmos where black holes trap light and stop time, where wormholes form gravitational time machines, where space itself is continually expanding, and where some 13.7 billion years ago our universe was born in the ultimate cosmic event-the Big Bang.

Subjects:

• Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 — Influence.
• Relativity (Physics)

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Part of the series Studies in environment and history;Studies in environment and history.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-591) and index.
• I. Evolution and earth systems. 1. Geological time: the court jester on the platform of life. Tectonics, asteroids, plumes, punctuation, Gaia: revolutions in earth science — Evolution: from neo-Darwinism to complex emergence — A punctuated earth systems synthesis — Origins: the Hadean and the Archean — The Archean/Paleo-proterozoic crisis — The Neoproterozoic crisis and the Cambrian: a snowball earth? — Phanerozoic super-cycles–and biotic extinctions and escalations — Mass extinctions — 2. Human emergence. Into the Cenozoic icehouse — The court jester in the Cenozoic: debate and three kinds of evidence — Miocene apes and the early hominins — Orbital cycles: from the 23K world to the 41K world — The 41K world and the genus Homo — The 100K world: homo Heidelbergensis, archaic homo Sapiens — Modern humans in the 100K world — The modern origins debate and a renewed understanding of mortality — Gould and Eldridge’s punctuation meets Boserup’s intensification: toward a new understanding of the Upper Paleolithic.
• II. Domestication, agriculture, and the rise of the state. 3. Agricultural revolutions. Energy — Changing climates: the end of the Pleistocene — New climate science, new archaeological science — Human adaptation at the Bølling-Allerød warming: the Mesolithic — The younger Dryas and the early Holocene: cereal domestication in the northern mid-latitudes — Early Holocene warming and tropical domestications — Into the mid-Holocene: final domestications and first dispersals — 4. The mid-Holocene, the late Neolithic, and the urban-state revolution. The emergence of modern global climates: the mid-Holocene transition — The mid-Holocene crisis and the rise of the state — Neolithic intensification: the secondary products revolution — China and Mesopotamia in the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition — 5. Human well-being from the Paleolithic to the rise of the state. Human health in the Paleolithic — The Neolithic demographic transition — Civilizational stresses in the Neolithic — Fertility and mortality in the Neolithic — Fertility, mortality, and the origins of complex societies: the case of Southwest Asia.
• III. Ancient and medieval agrarian societies. 6. Stasis and growth in the epoch of agrarian empires. Getting ahead, running in place, falling behind — Population growth and Dark Ages — Endogenous degradations? — Late Holocene climate reversals — Disease and epidemics — Energy: innovation, labor, and slavery — Punctuations — 7. Optimum and crisis in early civilizations, 3000-500 BC. The Old World Bronze Age: expansions and crises, 3000-1000 BC — The preclassical crisis and the Age of Iron, 1200-300 BC — A global view on optimum and crisis — Human health in the Bronze Age Optimum and the Iron Age/preclassical crisis — 8. A global antiquity, 500 BC-AD 542. The problem of growth in antiquity — China, iron, and rotary power — Global antiquity: numbers and climate — The rise of Rome — The fall of Rome? — 9. The global Dark and Middle ages, AD 542-1350. Climate reversals in the tropics and the north — The Dark Ages, AD 400-900 — The medieval climate anomaly, AD 900-1275 — Population and health in the Old World Dark and Middle ages — Growth and crisis in the medieval world, 1000-1350 — Southern Asia — North America — China and Mongolia — Into the little Ice Age — Europe — The little Ice Age and the Black Death.
• IV. Into the modern condition. 10. Climate, demography, economy, and polity in the late medieval-early modern world, 1350-1700. — Population in and beyond the third age of epidemics, 1300-1800 — The question of growth and divergence — The aftermath of the third age of epidemics — Emerging European empires, New World depopulation — The little Ice Age, New World depopulation, and the origins of the African slave trade — The little Ice Age and early modern Eurasia — Early modern England in the age of empire, the little Ice Age, and the seventeenth-century crisis — The seventeenth-century English energy revolution — 11. Global transformations: Atlantic origins, 1700-1870. The end of the little Ice Age and the beginning of modern population growth, 1700-1860s. The beginnings of the modern Anthropocene — Industrial revolutions — The first industrial revolution — Emissions and atmosphere, 1800-1880 — 12. Launching modern growth: 1870 to 1945. Urbanization, a new political economy, and the second Industrial Revolution — Atlantic cities and the first wave: environmental crisis and social reform — The second Industrial Revolution — The demographic revolution, 1800-1945 — 1914-1945: a world in crisis, growth on hold — Environmental impacts, 1870-1945: the second wave — 13. Growth beyond limits: 1945 to present. The demographic revolution, part II: 1945 to present — The age of high growth and a third Industrial Revolution? the world economy, 1945 to present — Environmental impacts, 1945 to present: confronting the third wave — The modern Anthropocene.
• Coda: A rough journey into an uncertain future. Malthus vindicated? — Deniers, pessimists, and pragmatists.

Subjects:

• Climatic changes — History.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on.
• Human beings — Effect of climate on.
• World history.

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• Introduction — The language of science — Geologic time — Putting numbers on geologic ages — Documenting past climate change — The nature of energy received from the sun : the analogies with water waves and sound — The nature of energy received from the sun : figuring out what light really is — Exploring the electromagnetic spectrum — The origins of climate science : the idea of energy balance — The climate system — What’s at the bottom of Alice’s rabbit hole — Energy from the sun : long-term variations — Solar variability and cosmic rays — Albedo — Air — HOH : the keystone of earth’s climate — The atmosphere — Oxygen and ozone : products and protectors of life — Water vapor : the major greenhouse gas — Carbon dioxide — Other greenhouse gases — The circulation of earth’s atmosphere and ocean — The biological interactions — Sea level — Global climate change : the (geologically) immediate past — Is there an analog for the future climate? — The instrumental temperature record — The future.

Subjects:

• Climatology.
• Climatic changes.
• Earth sciences.
• Geography.
• Geology.
• Life sciences.
• Climatic changes.
• Earth Sciences.
• Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
• Historical Geology.

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• Why geoengineering? — Sucking carbon — Regulating sunlight — The players and the public — Promethean dreams — Atmospheric geopolitics — Ethical anxieties — This goodly frame.
• This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have failed and before the end of the century Earth is now projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question, ‘can the crisis be avoided?’ has been superseded by a more chilling one, ‘what can be done to prevent the devastation of the living world?’ And the disturbing answer, now under the wide discussion both within and outside the scientific community, is to seize control of the climate of Earth itself. The author begins by exploring the range of technologies now being developed in the field of geoengineering, the intentional, enduring, large-scale manipulation of Earth’s climate system. He lays out the arguments for and against climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists and corporations. He examines what it means for human beings to be making plans to control the planet’s atmosphere, probes the uneasiness we feel with the notion of exercising technological mastery over nature, and challenges the ways we think about ourselves and our place in the natural world. — Book jacket.

Subjects:

• Weather control.
• Climate change mitigation.
• Environmental geotechnology.

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