Heat A History
DOWNLOAD
Download Heat A History PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Heat A History book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Warmth Disperses And Time Passes
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Warmth Disperses And Time Passes written by Hans Christian Von Baeyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Maxwell's demon categories.
Heat A History
DOWNLOAD
Author : On Barak
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-08-27
Heat A History written by On Barak and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with History categories.
"With an unrelenting barrage of record-breaking temperatures dominating the headlines, an enigma arises--despite the flames licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and mechanisms grant us the capacity to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Heat: A History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility all served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all these measures have ultimately fuelled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific abstractions and economic and cultural forces that have numbed our responses this book charts a way forward out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action"--
Heat A History
DOWNLOAD
Author : On Barak
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-08-27
Heat A History written by On Barak and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with History categories.
Shifts the conversation from abstract “global warming” to the deeply human impacts of heat—and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility have served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all of these measures have ultimately fueled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific, economic, and cultural forces that have numbed our responses, this book charts a way out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action.
The Kind Of Motion We Call Heat
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephen G. Brush
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Kind Of Motion We Call Heat written by Stephen G. Brush and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Science categories.
White Heat
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
White Heat written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
White Heat
DOWNLOAD
Author : Dominic Sandbrook
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-02-05
White Heat written by Dominic Sandbrook and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with History categories.
'An active pleasure to read' Mail on Sunday Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.
Warmth Disperses And Time Passes
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 1999-06-15
Warmth Disperses And Time Passes written by Hans Christian Von Baeyer and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-15 with Science categories.
If you want to know what's happening in the world, follow the heat. Why can't your coffee "steal" heat from the air to stay piping hot? Why can't Detroit make a car that's 100 percent efficient? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles, including why time inexorably runs in only one direction. In Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it. With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling coffee cup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.
Facing The Heat Barrier
DOWNLOAD
Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Facing The Heat Barrier written by T. A. Heppenheimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Science categories.
Hypersonics is the study of flight at speeds where aerodynamic heating dominates the physics of the problem. Typically this is Mach 5 and higher. Hypersonics is an engineering science with close links to supersonics and engine design. Within this field, many of the most important results have been experimental. The principal facilities have been wind tunnels and related devices, which have produced flows with speeds up to orbital velocity. Why is it important? Hypersonics has had two major applications. The first has been to provide thermal protection during atmospheric entry. Success in this enterprise has supported ballistic-missile nose cones, has returned strategic reconnaissance photos from orbit and astronauts from the Moon, and has even dropped an instrument package into the atmosphere of Jupiter. The last of these approached Jupiter at four times the speed of a lunar mission returning to Earth. Work with re-entry has advanced rapidly because of its obvious importance. The second application has involved high-speed propulsion and has sought to develop the scramjet as an advanced airbreathing ramjet. Scramjets are built to run cool and thereby to achieve near-orbital speeds. They were important during the Strategic Defense Initiative, when a set of these engines was to power the experimental X-30 as a major new launch vehicle. This effort fell short, but the X-43A, carrying a scramjet, has recently flown at Mach 9.65 by using a rocket. Atmospheric entry today is fully mature as an engineering discipline. Still, the Jupiter experience shows that work with its applications continues to reach for new achievements. Studies of scramjets, by contrast, still seek full success, in which such engines can accelerate a vehicle without the use of rockets. Hence, there is much to do in this area as well. For instance, work with computers may soon show just how good scramjets can become. NASA SP-2007-4232
The Kind Of Motion We Call Heat
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephen George Brush
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Kind Of Motion We Call Heat written by Stephen George Brush and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Kinetic theory of gases categories.
An Outline Of The History Of Therapeutic Heat
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sidney Licht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
An Outline Of The History Of Therapeutic Heat written by Sidney Licht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Heat (Therapeutic) categories.
