Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics

Auteur: McCarthy, Dennis D. (United States Naval Observatory)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.

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This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.
ISBN / EAN 9781107197282
Auteur McCarthy, Dennis D. (United States Naval Observatory)
Editeur Cambridge University Press