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Chargement... Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physicspar Craig F. Bohren
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Rather out of date now, unfortunately; author Craig Bohren keeps suggesting experiments using a slide projector to provide a tight light beam. Nevertheless a clever amateur scientist could probably cobble something together to perform most of them. Clouds in a Glass of Beer provides explanations for many of the puzzling problems of everyday physics, such as “Why is the head on a glass of beer white when the beer itself is yellow?” and debunks many popular misconceptions about weather and the atmosphere. (For example, a cloudy night is not warmer than a clear one because “the clouds reflect infrared radiation from the earth”; it’s warmer because the clouds themselves are warm – i.e., they are emitting infrared rather than reflecting it). I confess a long-held misconception of my own was debunked; I had read somewhere that you can never see more than two rainbows because higher order reflections are directed toward the ground. In fact, there are reliable observations of third-order rainbows, but the third-order rainbow is behind the viewer when looking at first- and second-order rainbows and is usually lost in the sun’s glare. I’ll have to start checking. ( ) This is a terrible book with an attractive title. It i a collection of inexpensive experiments to teach atmospheric physics 1.01. The author was happy to publish his lectures notes: that can certainly be useful to another teacher, but it does not make a book. For instance, the book is made of a series of experiments: it is not organized by concepts and the concepts are not explained. It is not a book. You can find hundreds of such experiments for free on the internet, many of them on Youtube. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Memorable and thoroughly understandable science lessons, liberally sprinkled with humor, will fascinate beginning physics students as well as other readers in such chapters as "On a Clear Day You Can't See Forever," "Physics on a Manure Heap," "A Murder in Ceylon," and "Multiple Scattering at the Breakfast Table." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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