Of Clocks and Time

ISBN-13: 9781643270395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

Lutz Huwel

Opis

Takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken everywhere, the book visits equations, quantitative relations, and rigorous definitions are offered as well.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author biography
• 1. Days, months and years
• 2. Hours, minutes and seconds
• 3. From milliseconds to attoseconds: is there a limit?
• 4. Space and time forever entwined
• 5. Deep time or getting old
• 6. From beginning to end
• 7. Bibliography