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Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter

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Paperback
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Book
IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
9780674018488
Item Length
8in
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Item Height
0.5in
Author
Roger G. Newton
Genre
Science
Topic
Waves & Wave Mechanics, General, Time, History
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks--contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo's Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces--from marine chronometers to atomic clocks--based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum's oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton's equations of motion, from Pythagoras's theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday's field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo's Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674018486
ISBN-13
9780674018488
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Roger G. Newton
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Waves & Wave Mechanics, General, Time, History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz

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Qb209.N48 2005
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ÝA¨ short, clear and fascinating book about time, our relationship to it and our growing ability to measure it...It takes in along the way Newton, Faraday, Einstein, the one-handed clock of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and John Harrison's entry for the Longitude Prize., The range of things that measure time, from living creatures to atomic clocks, brackets Newton's intriguing narrative of time's connections, in the middle of which stands Galileo's famous discovery about pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time., clearly and concisely as a crucial building block for our understanding of nature in this very interesting and engaging book., [A] short, clear and fascinating book about time, our relationship to it and our growing ability to measure it...It takes in along the way Newton, Faraday, Einstein, the one-handed clock of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and John Harrison's entry for the Longitude Prize., pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time., This delightful short book addresses the problem of time measurement, viewed in its different aspects through history. It is centered on the keen observation made anecdotally in the cathedral of Pisa by Galileo Galilei, when he was only 17, that the time it took the hanging chandelier to complete one oscillation was independent of how far it was swinging...The far-reaching and pervading properties of the harmonic oscillator are presented clearly and concisely as a crucial building block for our understanding of nature in this very interesting and engaging book.
Publication Name
Galileo's Pendulum : from the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles Notes References Index
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-056972
Dewey Decimal
529/.7
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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