Lutz Hüwel

Of Clocks and Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology - and occasional bits of applications and history - of timekeeping. The author offers conceptual vistas and qualitative images, along with equations, quantitative relations, and rigorous definitions. The book includes discussion of the rhythms produced by the motion of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, summary of historical theoretical insights that are still influential today, examination of the tools that allow us to measure time, as well as explanations of radioactive dating and Einstein's theories of relativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IOP Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781681748177
• ISBN-10: 1681748177
• Artikelnr.: 74200502

Autorenporträt

Lutz Hüwel earned the Diplom degree in physics for experimental work on low temperature magnetism at the Georg-August University in Gottingen, Germany. He then completed his PhD at the Max-Planck Institut fur Stromungsforschung (MPI for Fluid Dynamics) in Gottingen. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Hans Pauly, he designed and executed experiments on the scattering of laser excited atoms. After earning an Otto-Hahn Medal, Hüwel started a postdoc appointment at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, working on laser investigations of molecular dynamics. He currently teaches physics at Wesleyan University, and his research focuses on molecular photophysics and laser produced plasmas.