Time: from earth rotation to atomic physics
Auteur :
McCarthy, Dennis D. / Seidelmann, P. Kenneth
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107197282
Date de publication :
18 oct. 2018
Dimensions :
25,3 x 17,8 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
950 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.