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Galileo’s Pendulum

Author : Roger G. NEWTON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041488
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Galileo’s Pendulum written by Roger G. NEWTON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks--contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo's Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces--from marine chronometers to atomic clocks--based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum's oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton's equations of motion, from Pythagoras' theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday's field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo's Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles Notes References Index Reviews of this book: The range of things that measure time, from living creatures to atomic clocks, brackets Newton's intriguing narrative of time's connections, in the middle of which stands Galileo's famous discovery about pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time. --Gilbert Taylor, Booklist

Galileo's Pendulum

Author : Dusan I. Bjelic
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486095
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Galileo's Pendulum written by Dusan I. Bjelic and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.

Galileo's Pendulum

Author : Kat Simons
Publisher : T&D Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galileo's Pendulum written by Kat Simons and published by T&D Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging a legendary Galileo relic and selling it to a notorious crime boss thrusts restoration specialist Amber Ross and her treasure hunting partner Rick O’Neill into a desperate race to find the real artifact. A machine assumed to be myth. A device capable of more than most think. Ross and O’Neill must uncover secrets long buried, mysteries that take them across the world, staying just ahead of those hunting them. And if they can’t solve the mystery and locate the real relic, neither will escape with their life. Don’t miss this action-packed adventure from bestselling writer, Kat Simons, as it races readers on a thrilling journey to find a historical artifact best forgotten. keywords: Action Adventure Thriller; Mystery Action and Adventure; Thriller; Science Thriller; Women’s Adventure Fiction; Women’s Action and Adventure Fiction; Adventure Mystery; fun action thriller; mystery action thriller; mystery action fiction; mystery crime adventure; historical thriller; conspiracy thriller; science history thriller

Confronting The Enigma Of Time

Author : John R Fanchi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1800613202
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Confronting The Enigma Of Time written by John R Fanchi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Newton's classical mechanics, time played the role of a monotonically increasing evolution parameter. Einstein rejected the Newtonian concept and instead identified time as the fourth coordinate of a space-time four-vector. Today, scientists are considering different concepts of time as a means of resolving incompatibilities between relativity and quantum mechanics. Some view time as an emergent property of a system rather than a fundamental property, while others consider two temporal variables. The purpose of this book is to examine the role of time in modern physics so that the reader gains an increased awareness of time and its place in our understanding of nature.

KNOW ABOUT " GALILEO GALILEI"

Author : Saurabh Singh Chauhan
Publisher : Saurabh Singh Chauhan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book KNOW ABOUT " GALILEO GALILEI" written by Saurabh Singh Chauhan and published by Saurabh Singh Chauhan. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. From a young age, Galileo showed a great aptitude for mathematics and science. He went on to study at the University of Pisa, where he made his first important scientific discovery: the laws of motion of a pendulum. After leaving Pisa, Galileo taught mathematics at the University of Padua for nearly twenty years. During this time, he conducted a wide range of scientific experiments, including studies of inclined planes, falling bodies, and the motion of projectiles. He also invented the telescope, which he used to make groundbreaking observations of the heavens. In 1610, Galileo published a book called The Starry Messenger, in which he described his telescopic observations of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus. His discoveries included the four largest moons of Jupiter, which are now known as the Galilean moons. Galileo's work helped to overthrow the prevailing geocentric model of the universe, which placed the Earth at the center, and to establish the heliocentric model, which places the Sun at the center. Galileo's support for the heliocentric model brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church, which at the time held great power and influence. In 1633, Galileo was put on trial by the Inquisition and forced to recant his views. However, he continued to work on his scientific theories in secret, and in 1638 he published his most important work, Two New Sciences. Galileo's work had a profound impact on the development of science. He is considered to be one of the founders of the scientific method, and his discoveries helped to lay the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. Galileo is often referred as the "father of observational astronomy" and the "father of modern science." In the coming following chapters, we will explore Galileo's life and work in more detail. We will discuss his scientific discoveries, his conflict with the Church, and his legacy as one of the greatest scientists of all time.

The Pendulum

Author : Michael Matthews
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402035268
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Pendulum written by Michael Matthews and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised. Contributions to this 32-chapter anthology deal with the science, history, methodology and pedagogy of pendulum motion. There is ample material for the richer and more cross-disciplinary treatment of the pendulum from elementary school to high school, and through to advanced university classes. Scientists will value the studies on the physics of the pendulum; historians will appreciate the detailed treatment of Galileo, Huygens, Newton and Foucault’s pendulum investigations; psychologists and educators will learn from the papers on Piaget; teachers will welcome the many contributions to pendulum pedagogy. All readers will come away with a new awareness of the importance of the pendulum in the foundation and development of modern science; and for its centrality in so many facets of society and culture.

Theology after Postmodernity

Author : Tina Beattie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611832
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Theology after Postmodernity written by Tina Beattie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking study that has the capacity to transform the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and Christian theology. Reading the theology of Thomas Aquinas in close engagement with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and she also shows how a Lacanian approach can bring rich new insights to Thomas's theology. A growing number of English-speaking scholars now recognize the extent to which twentieth century French theorists and philosophers were influenced by medieval theology, and there have been several studies of Jacques Lacan's Thomism. However, this is the first study published in English to bring a Lacanian feminist perspective to bear on the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing on the centrality of desire in Thomas's theology and Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, Beattie follows Lacan along an overgrown and often hidden path through the changing configurations of desire, gender, and knowledge from their Aristotelian formation in the medieval universities to their fragmentation in the collapse of modernity's visions and values. Beattie offers a penetrating critique of Thomas's Aristotelianism, but she also excavates the mystical treasures within his theology. This enables her to show how Thomas's God remains an unconscious but potent influence in the shaping of modern western thought, and to ask what transformations might be needed in order to bring about a Thomism for our times. Probing beneath the surface of Thomas's Summa Theologiae and other writings, she brings to light the Other of Thomas's One God - an incarnate, maternal Trinity who emerges when Thomas's Aristotelian ontotheology is suspended and the more neglected aspects of his doctrinal and theological insights are allowed to emerge. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption capable of responding to some of the most urgent and far-reaching challenges that questions of gender, nature, and God pose to Christian theological language in its classical and postmodern formations.

Galileo and the Scientific Revolution

Author : Laura Fermi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486170020
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Galileo and the Scientific Revolution written by Laura Fermi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing account of the origins of modern science as well as a biography, this book places particular emphasis on Galileo's experiments with telescopes and his observations of the sky.

Thus Spoke Galileo

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198566255
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Thus Spoke Galileo written by Galileo Galilei and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Galileo Unbound

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192528505
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Galileo Unbound written by David D. Nolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Phenomenal Physics

Author : J. Russell Harkay Ph.D., J Russell Harkay
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411688821
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenal Physics written by J. Russell Harkay Ph.D., J Russell Harkay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reinterpreting Galileo

Author : William A. Wallace
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813230888
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Galileo written by William A. Wallace and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Dialogue

Time for Science Education

Author : Michael Matthews
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401139946
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Time for Science Education written by Michael Matthews and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing capacities for clear, analytic and critical thought. These have been the long-accepted goals of liberal education. In a liberal education, students should come to know and appre ciate a variety of disciplines, know them at an appropriate depth, see the interconnectedness of the disciplines, or the modes of thought, and finally have some critical disposition toward what is being learned, to be genuinely open minded about intellectual things. These liberal goals are contrasted with goals such as professional training, job preparation, promotion of self-esteem, social engineering, entertainment, or countless other putative purposes of schooling that are enunciated by politicians, administrators, and educators. The book's argument might be consistent with other views of education especially ones about the training of specialists (sometimes called a professional view of education)-but the argument fits best with a liberal view of education. The liberal hope has always been that if education is done well, then other per sonal and social goods will follow. The development of informed, critical, and moral capacities is the cornerstone for personal and social achievements.

Science, Method, and Argument in Galileo

Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030771474
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Science, Method, and Argument in Galileo written by Maurice A. Finocchiaro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo’s life and thought—his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as “father of modern science.” These republished essays include many hard to find articles, out of print works, and chapters which are not available online. The collection provides an excellent resource of the author's lifelong dedication to the subject. Thus, the book contains critical analyses of some key Galilean arguments about the laws of falling bodies and the Copernican hypothesis of the earth’s motion. There is also a group of chapters in which Galileo’s argumentation is compared and contrasted with that of other figures such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Giordano Bruno, and his musicologist father Vincenzo Galilei. The chapters on Galileo’s trial illustrate an approach to the science-vs-religion issue which Finocchiaro labels “para-clerical” and conceptualizes in terms of a judicious consideration of arguments for and against Galileo and the Church. Other essays examine argumentation about Galileo’s life and thought by the major Galilean scholars of recent decades. The book will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, history of science, history of religion, philosophy of religion, argumentation, rhetoric, and communication studies.

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel

Author : Philippe Sormani
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839982659
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel written by Philippe Sormani and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond. Therefore, the Companion takes its cue from Garfinkel’s noted “breaching experiments,” enabling the reflexive investigation of “trust conditions” in situ, and asks how this research interest has been productively pursued and distinctively rearticulated, both within and beyond Garfinkel’s oeuvre. Whilst Garfinkel’s experimental legacy is often acknowledged, no systematic introduction to its distinctive outlook, tension-riddled diversification, and heuristic interest(s) is available to date. The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel both fills and reflects upon that “gap in the literature,” thereby articulating ethnomethodology’s experimental outlook, if not recasting its current research directions.

Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated)

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560585
Total Pages : 1977 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated) written by Galileo Galilei and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com

Science Teaching

Author : Michael R. Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317796160
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Science Teaching written by Michael R. Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Teaching argues that science teaching and science teacher education can be improved if teachers know something of the history and philosophy of science and if these topics are included in the science curriculum. The history and philosophy of science have important roles in many of the theoretical issues that science educators need to address: what constitutes an appropriate science curriculum for all students; how science should be taught in traditional cultures; how scientific literacy can be promoted; and the conflict which can occur between science curriculum and deep-seated religious or cultural values and knowledge. Outlining the history of liberal approaches to the teaching of science, Michael Matthews elaborates contemporary curriculum developments that explicitly address questions about the nature and the history of science. He provides examples of classroom teaching and develops useful arguments on constructivism, multicultural science education and teacher education.