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The nature of time

J. Woods Halley

CRC Press, 2023

1st ed

  • : hbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

- Focuses on a very physical and specific understanding of how humans measure and interpret the measurements of the quantity of time, unlike existing books which explore qualitative, speculative theories currently entertained in physics and philosophy.

目次

1. Clocks: The Nature of Time Measurement 2. Issues in the Nature of Time 3. Thermodynamics, Irreversibility, and Time 4. Quantum Mechanics and Time 5. Relativity and Time 6. Afterword Appendix 1.1 Some Atomic Physics of the Cesium Clock Appendix 1.2 A Few Facts About Molecular Biology Appendix 1.3 Determining the Age of the Earth Appendix 1.4 Doppler Shifts Appendix 1.5 Determination of Distances of Galaxies from Earth and Estimates of the Age of the Universe Appendix 2.1 Defining the Instantaneous Present and Predicting the Future with Newtonian Physics Appendix 3.1 Coarse Graining in Card Games Appendix 5.1 Michelson Morley Experiment Appendix 5.2 The 'G' in the Lorentz Transformation Appendix 5.3 Proper Time Intervals Are the Same in All Frames

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BD00687919
  • ISBN
    • 9780367478759
  • LCCN
    2022013273
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Boca Raton
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 156 p.
  • 大きさ
    26 cm
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