Author: Richard A. KnoxPublisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312276867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Experiments in Astronomy for Amateurs
Author: Richard A. KnoxPublisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312276867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Experiments in Astronomy for Amateurs
Author: Richard KnoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Sky is Your Laboratory
Author: Robert BuchheimPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387739955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
For the experienced amateur astronomer who is wondering if there is something useful, valuable, and permanent that can be done with his or her observational skills, the answer is, “Yes, there is!” This is THE book for the amateur astronomer who is ready to take the next step in his or her astronomical journey. Till now there has been no text that points curious amateur astronomers to the research possibilities open to them. At the 2006 meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences, participants agreed that the lack of such a text was a serious gap in the astronomical book market. This book plugs that hole.
Recreations in Astronomy
Author: Henry White WarrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Sky is Your Laboratory
Author: Robert K. BuchheimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exercises and Experiments in Astronomy
Author: Gerald LasalaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780757588518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recreations in Astronomy with Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
Author: Henry White WarrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Challenges of Astronomy
Author: W. SchlosserPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146124434X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A unique collection of thirty experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology, each containing one or more challenges for the reader. The progression here is from the Earth outward through the solar system to the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the sky; Stonehenge as a stone-age abacus; determining the size of the Earth; the distance of the moon, stars and planets; planetary mass, density, temperature and atmosphere; the speed of light; the nature of the quiet and active sun; photometry and spectroscopy; star clusters and variable stars; and fundamental properties of stars.
Experiments for Future Astronomers
Author: Robert GardnerPublisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766082008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
What do physics, math, space, and the night sky have in common? They are all topics that interest astronomers. This title will introduce budding scientists to hands-on experiments that may spark their interest in a career in astronomy. All books contain descriptions of the scientific method, lab safety guidelines, and career information. Color drawings illustrate experimental setups and scientific ideas. Great ideas for science fair projects that incorporate math and science are included throughout the book.
Recreations in Astronomy with Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
Author: Henry White WarrenPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230092096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... its inexplicable surroundings. It has not only its gorgeous eastern sunrise, its glorious western sunset, high above it5 surface in the clouds, but it also has its more glorious northern dawn far above its clouds and air. The realm of this royal splendor is as yet an unconquered world waiting for its Alexander. There are certain observable facts, viz., it prevails mostly near the arctic circle rather than the pole; it takes on various forms--cloud-like, arched, straight; it streams like banners, waves like curtains in the wind, is inconstant; is either the cause or result of electric disturbance; it is often from four hundred to six hundred miles above the earth, while our air cannot be over one hundred miles. It almost seems like a revelation to human eyes of those vast, changeable, panoramic pictures by which the inhabitants of heaven are taught. Investigation has discovered far more mysteries than it has explained. It is possible that the same cause that produces sun-spots produces aurora in all space, visible in all worlds. If so, we shall see more abundant auroras at the next maximum of sun-spot, between 1880-84. The Delicate Balance of Forces. A soap-bubble in the wind could hardly be more flexible in form and sensitive to influence than is the earth. / On the morning of May 9th, 1876, the earth's crust at Peru gave a few great throbs upward, by the action of expansive gases within. The sea fled, and returned in great waves as the land rose and fell. Then these waves fled away over the great mobile surface, and in less than five hours they had covered a space equal to half of Europe. The waves ran out to the Sandwich Islands, six thousand miles, at the rate of five hundred miles an hour, and arrived there thirty feet high. They not...