The nature of time. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J. Woods Halley.
• Authors: Halley, J. Woods
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 529; Time; Time measurements
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000688092; 9781000687125; 9781003037125
• Related ISBNs: 9780367478759; 9780367477066
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