Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Donn Eisele,Francis French [Eisele, Donn]

8. The Grandeur of Earth I watched the earth roll past the spaceship windows. Earth is a fascinating thing to watch from two hundred miles up. We managed to put ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

PART II The Beginning and the End CHAPTER 7 Deceleration or Acceleration? Limits to Prediction In August 1999, a total solar eclipse was visible from southwest England. I viewed it ...
( Category: Astronomy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:Norman Gray

to transform the components of the vectors and which you obtained in (c), into the polar basis {er, eθ}, and show that [u++] Exercise 3.5 (§ 3.1.4)Define a scalar field, ...
( Category: Cosmology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Atkins, Peter; [Atkins, Peter;]

For mathematically cogent reasons that need not detain us here, Clausius defined a change in entropy of a system as the result of dividing the energy transferred as heat by ...
( Category: Thermodynamics January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1972-01-15 | Author:John Drury Clark

2. The classification of hydrogen, as a fair contributor of energy even though it, naturally, has a zero heat of formation, is explained by the fact that the molecule is ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stamos, David N. [Stamos, David N.]

Contextualist History of Science There are different ways of doing history, and they need not converge given the very same topic. One way is history of ideas, which is popular ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Donald Goldsmith

The exoplanet expert David Kipping has pointed to an interesting aspect of the newly established super-Earth category: our planet’s rank among the largest of these objects. As Kipping puts it: ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 19,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

IV Thoreau had loved nature as intensely as Darwin and perhaps more personally. He had seen with another set of glasses. He was, in an opposite sense to Darwin, a ...
( Category: Cosmology January 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...
( Category: Paleontology January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:L. S. Fauber

It was not enough to be a critical reader. Every work that civilization had ever created must be assumed false. Regarding certain knowledge as a mode of demonstration and discourse ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:A.K. Evans [Evans, A.K.]

“Do you want me to come over for a little bit tonight?” I’d just gotten out of my class and called Holden. I didn’t know why, but something prompted me ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense January 16,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Ed James

19 Hunter sneaked over to the back door and tried to open it without making a sound. Almost succeeded, just a slight click. He pushed himself against the side wall, ...
( Category: Murder January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff [Golub, Leon]

FIGURE 5.8. Solar eclipse composite images made from dozens of original photographs combined to bring out the full range of bright and faint features in the corona. The computer work ...
( Category: Astronomy January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-12 | Author:Discovery

ROBOTS ARE COOL, BUT A LIGHT SABER WOULD BE AMAZING … Well, the military has been thinking the same thing. The armed forces have been working with lithium-ion battery, technology-powered ...
( Category: Reference January 12,2020 )