Tides And The Pull Of The Moon
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Author |
: James Greig McCully |
Publisher |
: World Scientific |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789812774330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9812774335 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Moon by : James Greig McCully
Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: OC Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity.OCO"
Author |
: Francis E. Wylie |
Publisher |
: Berkley |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X004493780 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tides and the Pull of the Moon by : Francis E. Wylie
Author |
: Jonathan White |
Publisher |
: Trinity University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2017-01-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781595348067 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1595348069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tides by : Jonathan White
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.
Author |
: Steacy D. Hicks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822035567122 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Tides by : Steacy D. Hicks
Author |
: Neil F. Comins |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 506 |
Release |
: 2010-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429957939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142995793X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis What If the Earth Had Two Moons? by : Neil F. Comins
"What if?" questions stimulate people to think in new ways, to refresh old ideas, and to make new discoveries. In What If the Earth Had Two Moons, Neil Comins leads us on a fascinating ten-world journey as we explore what our planet would be like under alternative astronomical conditions. In each case, the Earth would be different, often in surprising ways. The title chapter, for example, gives us a second moon orbiting closer to Earth than the one we have now. The night sky is a lot brighter, but that won't last forever. Eventually the moons collide, with one extra-massive moon emerging after a period during which Earth sports a Saturn-like ring. This and nine and other speculative essays provide us with insights into the Earth as it exists today, while shedding new light on the burgeoning search for life on planets orbiting other stars. Appealing to adult and young adult alike, this book is a fascinating journey through physics and astronomy, and follows on the author's previous bestseller, What if the Moon Didn't Exist?, with completely new scenarios backed by the latest astronomical research.
Author |
: Marilyn Singer |
Publisher |
: Lerner Publishing Group |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 2018-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781430130055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1430130059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Full Moon is Rising by : Marilyn Singer
All around the world people are affected by and in awe of a full moon. In this poetic exploration of the lunar wonder, places near and far provide the backdrop for discovering celebrations, beliefs, customs and facts about the moon. From Broadway to Hong Kong to the International Space Station, the various perspectives, sparkling verses and depth of information create a fascinating rendering of a familiar, yet remarkable sight.
Author |
: Adam Nicolson |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2022-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374721282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374721289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life Between the Tides by : Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello. Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course different currents of endless motion—the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward propulsion of the passage of time, and the tiny lifetimes of the rock pool’s creatures, all of which coalesce into the grand narrative of evolution. In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn’s head become a medieval helmet and a group of “winkles” transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton and glancing at their pocket watches. Or, rather, is a winkle more like Achilles, an ancient hero, throwing himself toward death for the sake of glory? For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rock pools is infinite and as intricate as our own. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers—no one can escape the pull of the sea. We meet Virginia Woolf and her Waves; a young T. S. Eliot peering into his own rock pool in Massachusetts; even Nicolson’s father-in-law, a classical scholar who would hunt for amethysts along the shoreline, his mind on Heraclitus and the other philosophers of ancient Greece. And, of course, scientists populate the pages; not only their discoveries, but also their doubts and errors, their moments of quiet observation and their thrilling realizations. Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. “The soul wants to be wet,” Heraclitus said in Ephesus twenty-five hundred years ago. This marvelous book demonstrates why it is so. Includes Color and Black-and-White Photographs
Author |
: David A. Rothery |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2018-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108356428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108356427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to the Solar System by : David A. Rothery
Ongoing advances in Solar System exploration continue to reveal its splendour and diversity in remarkable detail. This undergraduate-level textbook presents fascinating descriptions and colour images of the bodies in the Solar System, the processes that occur upon and within them, and their origins and evolution. It highlights important concepts and techniques in boxed summaries, while questions and exercises are embedded at appropriate points throughout the text, with full solutions provided. Written and edited by a team of practising planetary scientists, this third edition has been updated to reflect our current knowledge. It is ideal for introductory courses on the subject, and is suitable for self-study. The text is supported by online resources, hosted at www.cambridge.org/solarsystem3, which include selected figures from the book, self-assessment questions and sample tutor assignments, with outlines of suggested answers.
Author |
: Paul J. Melchior |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 498 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105030122266 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Earth Tides by : Paul J. Melchior
Author |
: Sir George Howard Darwin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822043037217 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System by : Sir George Howard Darwin