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Unearthing Fermi's geophysics : based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941
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Unearthing Fermi's geophysics : based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941 / Gino Segrè and John Stack.
ISBN
9780226805283
022680528X
9780226805146
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook 2022.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 07, 2022
Contents
Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
1.1 Fermi's Notes
1.2 Plan of the Book
2. Gravity and the Earth
2.1 The Earth's Gravity
2.2 Earth's Gravitational Potential
2.3 Pressure at the Center of the Earth
2.4 The Moments of Inertia of the Earth
2.5 Motions of the Earth's Axis
2.6 Equinoxes and Solstices
2.7 Precession of the Equinoxes
2.8 Free Rotational Motion
3. Heat and the Atmosphere
3.1 First Law of Thermodynamics
3.2 State Variables
3.3 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
3.4 Ideal Gas
3.5 Chemical Potential
3.6 The Boundary between Phases
3.7 Moist Air
3.8 Atmospheric Composition and Temperature
3.9 Temperature vs. Altitude
3.10 The Upper Atmosphere
4. Atmospheric Loss
4.1 Maxwell Distribution
4.2 Escape Velocity
4.3 Lifetime of Atmosphere
4.4 Magnitude of Particle Losses
4.5 Helium
4.6 Speed of Sound
5. Liquid Drop Physics
5.1 Vapor Pressure and Raindrops
5.2 Liquid Drops Affect Vapor Pressure
5.3 Properties of Falling Raindrops
6. Coriolis Effects
6.1 The Coriolis Force
6.2 Coriolis Effects in the Atmosphere
6.3 Hurricanes
7. Radiation at the Surface
7.1 Surface of the Earth
7.2 Crust of the Earth
7.3 Composition of the Oceans
7.4 Surface Temperature Equilibrium
7.5 Black Body Radiation
7.6 Planck's Formula
7.7 Special Cases
8. Ocean Properties
8.1 Heat Current
8.2 The Heat Equation
8.3 Diurnal Temperature Variation
8.4 Temperature of Seawater
8.5 Ocean Circulation
9. Gravity Waves
9.1 Dispersion Relations
9.2 Euler's Equation
9.3 Small Amplitude Surface Waves
10. Tide Physics
10.1 Effects of the Moon
10.2 The Tidal Potential
10.3 Water-Covered Earth
10.4 Time Dependence of Tides
10.5 Tides on Lakes and Seas
11. Earthquake Properties
12. Seismic Waves
12.1 Elementary Seismographs
12.2 Seismic Waves
12.3 Strain and the Strain Tensor
12.4 Stress and the Stress Tensor
12.5 Hooke's Law
12.6 Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
12.7 Stress and Strain
12.8 Newton's Law in a Solid
12.9 The Equation of Motion for Displacement
12.10 Longitudinal and Transverse
12.11 Snell's Law for Elastic Waves
13. Surface Seismic Waves
13.1 Surface Waves
13.2 Oscillations of the Earth
13.3 Breather Mode
14. Radioactivity
14.1 Historical Note
14.2 The Sixth Washington Conference
14.3 The Earth's Density
14.4 Estimates of the Age of the Earth
14.5 Radioactive Decay Equation
14.6 Radioactivity within the Earth
14.7 Uranium Decays
14.8 Radioactive Dating
15. Heat Flow in the Earth
15.1 Surface Heat Variations
15.2 Heat at the Earth's Surface
15.3 Scales in Heat Conduction
15.4 Heat Equilibrium
16. Earth Magnetism
16.1 Units
16.2 Magnetic Moments
16.3 Magnetic Field of the Earth
16.4 Earth Magnetization
16.5 Rotation of Charges
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