What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?: More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
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Praise for Clouds in a Glass of Beer - "… informative and engagingly idiosyncratic … brings the subject down to earth with offbeat, everyday examples and easy-to-follow experiments … Both... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486453367
ISBN13:9780486453361
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:210 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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Everyday science at its best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A variety of everyday phenomena are explained in this little book (185 pages). Most of it is optics and thermal physics, like frost and dew on the window, interference colors, mirages, heating and cooling (of LA smog, the greenhouse effect) origin of seasons, ...Quite complex concepts like optical thickness are illustrated with nice experiments (pouring milk in water) and by foot steps in the snow. Don't be afraid of refractive index gradients or polarization upon reflection, Bohren will explain them marvelously.I hope more physics textbooks would be like this: this is intriguing science whereas geometrical optics, the school book stuff, is mostly boring. Besides, these experiments and observations can be carried out by anybody with commonly available stuff: you only need a light bulb, a ruler and some volunteers to measure solar irrandiance, with 10-20% accuracy.
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