Cold Matters

2012-12-01 Nature

Author : Robert William Sandford
Release : 2012-12-01
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cold Matters written by Robert William Sandford. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment in a way that transcends traditional scientific journals, textbooks, public talks or newspaper articles that are so often ignored or forgotten. In the end, Cold Matters will change the way you think about ice and snow. The impassioned narrative and sophisticated illustrations found within the pages of Robert Sandford’s latest work offer ecologically and globally minded citizens an understanding of the behaviour of our ever-changing climate system and its effect on cold environments in western Canada over the past 400 years. Using revolutionary prediction scenarios to model glaciers and glacier meltwater in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Yukon, NWT and throughout the world, Cold Matters presents a clear snapshot of how altered ecosystems will impact future climates, urban centres and agricultural landscapes.

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

2000-12-12 Science

Author : Tom Shachtman
Release : 2000-12-12
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold written by Tom Shachtman. This book was released on 2000-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold (Scientific American). “A disarming portrait of an exquisite, ferocious, world-ending extreme,” Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold demonstrates how temperature science produced astonishing scientific insights and applications that have revolutionized civilization (Kirkus Reviews). It also illustrates how scientific advancement, fueled by fortuitous discoveries and the efforts of determined individuals, has allowed people to adapt to—and change—the environments in which they live and work, shaping man’s very understanding of, and relationship, with the world. This “truly wonderful book” was adapted into an acclaimed documentary underwritten by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, directed by British Emmy Award winner David Dugan, and aired on the BBC and PBS’s Nova in 2008 (Library Journal). “An absorbing account to chill out with.” —Booklist

Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter

2012-11-28 Science

Author : J.T. Mendonça
Release : 2012-11-28
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter written by J.T. Mendonça. This book was released on 2012-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of laser cooling of atoms led to the discovery of ultra-cold matter, with temperatures below liquid Helium, which displays a variety of new physical phenomena. Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter gives an overview of this recent area of science, with a discussion of its main results and a description of its theoretical concepts and methods. Ultra-cold matter can be considered in three distinct phases: ultra-cold gas, Bose Einstein condensate, and Rydberg plasmas. This book gives an integrated view of this new area of science at the frontier between atomic physics, condensed matter, and plasma physics. It describes these three distinct phases while exploring the differences, as well as the sometimes unexpected similarities, of their respective theoretical methods. This book is an informative guide for researchers, and the benefits are a result from an integrated view of a very broad area of research, which is limited in previous books about this subject. The main unifying tool explored in this book is the wave kinetic theory based on Wigner functions. Other theoretical approaches, eventually more familiar to the reader, are also given for extension and comparison. The book considers laser cooling techniques, atom-atom interactions, and focuses on the elementary excitations and collective oscillations in atomic clouds, Bose-Einstein condensates, and Rydberg plasmas. Linear and nonlinear processes are considered, including Landau damping, soliton excitation and vortices. Atomic interferometers and quantum coherence are also included.

Cold Dark Matter

2005-04-01 Fiction

Author : Alex Brett
Release : 2005-04-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 094/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cold Dark Matter written by Alex Brett. This book was released on 2005-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel A Canadian astronomer commits suicide on a desolate mountain peak in Hawaii, and Morgan O'Brien is sent to the observatory to find his missing data. But it seems she's not the only one who needs those notebooks, and her competitor is willing to kill to get them. But why? To find the answer, Morgan travels from the peak of Mauna Kea deep into Ottawa's past, where the darkness of the Cold War still obscures the truth.

Cold Matters

2012 Nature

Author : Robert W. Sandford
Release : 2012
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 19X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cold Matters written by Robert W. Sandford. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold matters distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water, and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment; in the end, Cold matters will change the way you think about ice and snow.

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