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Splitting The Second: The Story of Atomic Time

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 | #1042714 in Books |  CRC Press |  2000-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .65 x5.46 x8.29l,.70 | File type: PDF | 199 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| If you're interested in Time in General...|By BPM|This book is a fun, semi-technical but accessible, read about the second as a standard unit of measure. It covers the history of the importance of time to civilization and explains that evolution, culminating in atomic time and more recent developments in standardized timekeeping. This book is excellent, but could have been more

Until the 1950s timekeeping was based on the apparent motion of the Sun that in turn reflected the rotation of the Earth on its axis. But the Earth does not turn smoothly. By the 1940s it was clear that the length of the day fluctuated unpredictably and with it the length of the second. Astronomers wanted to redefine the second in terms of the motions of the Moon and the planets. Physicists wanted to dispense with astronomical time altogether and define the second in ter...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Splitting The Second: The Story of Atomic Time   |  A Jones. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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