This book provides a comprehensive, systematic description of modern timekeeping and its specializations. Introductory chapters discuss the concept of time and its definition, then briefly look at pre-Atomic Era timekeeping to set the stage for the i...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive, systematic description of modern timekeeping and its specializations. Introductory chapters discuss the concept of time and its definition, then briefly look at pre-Atomic Era timekeeping to set the stage for the i...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000687125)
This book reviews and contrasts contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive human points of view. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, ther...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000688092)
This book reviews and contrasts contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive human points of view. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, ther...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228009634)
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228009641)
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however,...Lasīt vairāk
Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many...Lasīt vairāk
Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many...Lasīt vairāk
This book encompasses recent developments of variational calculus for time scales. It is intended for use in the field of variational calculus and dynamic calculus for time scales. It is also suitable for graduate courses in the above fields. This bo...Lasīt vairāk
Busy people need to keep track of time. A clock is used to measure seconds, minutes, and hours. Learn about different typesof clocks and the history of clocks in Clock, an All About Measuring book. Each book in this series helps children learn basicm...Lasīt vairāk
A calendar can help people to count how long it is until their birthday. Calendars measure days, weeks, months, and years. Learn about different types of calendars and the history of measuring days, weeks, months, and years in Calendar, an All Abou...Lasīt vairāk
Youve only got one day to spend at the carnival-how do you make the most of your time? Students will learn how to measure time while reading about a fun-filled day at a carnival! This engaging math reader uses real-world examples to teach math conce...Lasīt vairāk
Youve only got one day to spend at the carnival-how do you make the most of your time? Students will learn how to measure time while reading about a fun-filled day at a carnival! This engaging book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, an...Lasīt vairāk
Youve only got one day to spend at the carnival-how do you make the most of your time? Students will learn how to measure time while reading about a fun-filled day at a carnival! This engaging book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, an...Lasīt vairāk
There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing To...Lasīt vairāk
There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing To...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jan-2017, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781451677010)
;An insightful meditation on the curious nature of timeA highly illuminating intellectual investigation (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience time.;Time is the most commonly used noun in the English language;...Lasīt vairāk
In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As...Lasīt vairāk
By the bestselling author of Just My Type: a “thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating” journey into the concept of time “stuffed with fascinating material” (Observer, UK).Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with...Lasīt vairāk
Time is the passage of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. People have always measured time in many different ways. Explore real world examples to learn basic mathematical concepts in Time, a Lets Do Math! book....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317160717)
In this timely book Lyn Craig provides the first comprehensive account of how parents divide their time between caring for children, housework, paid work and leisure. Using large-scale quantitative time-use data , the book provides a detailed analysi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317160724)
In this timely book Lyn Craig provides the first comprehensive account of how parents divide their time between caring for children, housework, paid work and leisure. Using large-scale quantitative time-use data , the book provides a detailed analysi...Lasīt vairāk
Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco Bellini, Paolo De Natale
Sērija : Series in Optics and Optoelectronics
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Inc, ISBN-13: 9781040067635)
Foreword by Nobel laureate Professor Theodor W. H,ch of Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitatMunchenBased on the authors experimental work over the last 25 years, Laser-Based Measurements for Time and Frequency Domain Applications: A Handbook presents basi...Lasīt vairāk
Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco Bellini, Paolo De Natale
Sērija : Series in Optics and Optoelectronics
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Inc, ISBN-13: 9781439841532)
Foreword by Nobel laureate Professor Theodor W. H,ch of Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitatMunchenBased on the authors experimental work over the last 25 years, Laser-Based Measurements for Time and Frequency Domain Applications: A Handbook presents basi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781783265862)
Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible pre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781783265862)
Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible pre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823261970)
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "e;lost time"e; by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.I...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2014, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823261963)
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "e;lost time"e; by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.I...Lasīt vairāk
Sometimes you just need to slow down in order to understand what is going on. This book will take things slowly so that you wont miss any important information. Get ready to travel through time using visual representations, rhyming text, and guided...Lasīt vairāk
The zany CATegorical cats introduce the measurement of time, from seconds, minutes, and hours up to decades. Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable bring their winning teamwork to this playful, fun look at learning about time.From the author and illustrator...Lasīt vairāk
The zany CATegorical cats introduce the measurement of time, from seconds, minutes, and hours up to decades. Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable bring their winning teamwork to this playful, fun look at learning about time.From the author and illustrator...Lasīt vairāk
A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar.The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only refo...Lasīt vairāk
Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our current knowledge of these calendars rests. This second volume of Calenda...Lasīt vairāk
Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our current knowledge of these calendars rests. This second volume of Calenda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Dec-2010, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Temple University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781439902646)
What do we mean when we say, "e;I made the time pass more quickly,"e; or, "e;I m creating some me time"e;? InThe Textures of Time, Michael Flaherty examines how we alter or customize our experience of time. His detailed analysis rev...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2010, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226093208)
In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Jul-2009, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, ISBN-13: 9783642012983)
Quantum trajectory theory is largely employed in theoretical quantum optics and quantum open system theory and is closely related to the conceptual formalism of quantum mechanics (quantum measurement theory). However, even research articles show that...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2009, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674041486)
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 w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Feb-2009, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191557286)
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and ci...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Feb-2009, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191608520)
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and ci...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Nov-2008, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134323159)
Time in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and Egypt where many of the first advances were made. Robert Hannah focuses on the physical aspects of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Nov-2008, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134323166)
Time in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and Egypt where many of the first advances were made. Robert Hannah focuses on the physical aspects of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2006, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803256316)
Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2005, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674266247)
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 w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2004, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191513688)
The Shortt clock, made in the 1920s, is the most famous accurate clock pendulum ever known, having an accuracy of one second per year when kept at nearly constant temperature. Almost all of a pendulum clocks accuracy resides in its pendulum. If the...Lasīt vairāk
Committee for an Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Naval Studies Board
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2002, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309168854)
Knowledge of time is essential to precise knowledge of location, and for this reason the Navy, with its need to navigate on the high seas, has historically played an important role in the development and application of advanced time realization and d...Lasīt vairāk
Committee for an Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Naval Studies Board
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2002, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309503204)
Knowledge of time is essential to precise knowledge of location, and for this reason the Navy, with its need to navigate on the high seas, has historically played an important role in the development and application of advanced time realization and d...Lasīt vairāk
