Clouds in a Glass of Beer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clouds in a Glass of Beer write by Craig F. Bohren. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Clouds in a Glass of Beer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberally sprinkled with humor, these lessons will fascinate beginning physics students and other readers with chapters titled "On a Clear Day You Can't See Forever" and "Physics on a Manure Heap."
A Sideways Look at Clouds
A Sideways Look at Clouds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sideways Look at Clouds write by Maria Mudd Ruth. This book was released on 2017-08-18. A Sideways Look at Clouds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. • Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.
Atmospheric Thermodynamics 2e
Atmospheric Thermodynamics 2e - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atmospheric Thermodynamics 2e write by Craig Bohren. This book was released on 2023-05. Atmospheric Thermodynamics 2e available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Atmospheric Thermodynamics provides a comprehensive treatment of a subject that can often be intimidating. The text analyses real-life problems and applications of the subject, alongside of guiding the reader through the fundamental basics and covering the first and second laws and the ideal gas law, followed by an emphasis on moist processes in Earth's atmosphere. Water in all its phases is a critical component of weather and the Earth's climate system. With user-friendly chapters that include energy conservation and water and its transformations, the authors write with a willingness to expose assumptions and approximations usually absent in other textbooks. History is woven into the text to provide a context for the time evolution of thermodynamics and its place in atmospheric science and demonstrating how physical reasoning leads to correct explanations of everyday phenomena. Many of the experiments described were done using inexpensive instruments to take advantage of the earth's atmosphere as a freely accessible thermodynamics library. This second edition provides updated treatments of atmospheric measurements and substantially expanded sections that include atmospheric applications of the first and second laws and energy exchange between humans and their atmospheric environment. With 400+ thought provoking problems and 350 references with annotated notes and further reading suggestions, this second edition provides a basic understanding of the fundamentals of this subject while still being a comprehensive reference guide for those working in the field of atmospheric and environmental sciences.
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? write by Craig F. Bohren. This book was released on 2013-02-20. What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abounding in lively writing and fun-filled, easy-to-perform experiments, this illustrated volume makes the fascinating world of atmospheric physics accessible to readers without a scientific background. 1991 edition.
Cloud & Ashes
Cloud & Ashes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cloud & Ashes write by Greer Gilman. This book was released on 2009-06-01. Cloud & Ashes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation. Praise for Cloud & Ashes: "A rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today. Brilliant and truly innovative fiction, not to be missed."—The Washington Times Greer Gilman is the author of Moonwise. A graduate of Wellesley and the University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.
