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Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for
granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which
our time scales are based. This volume presents the evolution of
concepts of time and methods of time keeping up to the present day.
It outlines the progression of time based on sundials, water
clocks, and the Earth's rotation, to time measurement using
pendulum clocks, quartz crystal clocks, and atomic frequency
standards. Time scales created as a result of these improvements in
technology and the development of general and special relativity
are explained. This second edition has been updated throughout to
describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances and discusses
the redefinition of SI units and the future of UTC. A new chapter
on time and cosmology has been added. This broad-ranging reference
benefits a diverse readership, including historians, scientists,
engineers, educators, and it is accessible to general readers.
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