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Author : Sir Henry Hardinge Cunynghame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Time and Clocks written by Sir Henry Hardinge Cunynghame and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chad Orzel
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1953295940
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Timekeeping written by Chad Orzel and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER — HISTORY: GENERAL ". . . inherently interesting, unique, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic library Physics of Time & Scientific Measurement history collections, and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review "A wonderful look into understanding and recording time, Orzel’s latest is appropriate for all readers who are curious about those ticks and tocks that mark nearly every aspect of our lives." —Booklist “A thorough, enjoyable exploration of the history and science behind measuring time.” —Foreword Reviews It’s all a matter of time—literally. From the movements of the spheres to the slipperiness of relativity, the story of science unfolds through the fascinating history of humanity’s efforts to keep time. Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Orzel, a physicist and the bestselling author of Breakfast with Einstein and How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog continues his tradition of demystifying thorny scientific concepts by using the clocks and calendars central to our everyday activities as a jumping-off point to explore the science underlying the ways we keep track of our time. Ancient solstice markers (which still work perfectly 5,000 years later) depend on the basic astrophysics of our solar system; mechanical clocks owe their development to Newtonian physics; and the ultra-precise atomic timekeeping that enables GPS hinges on the predictable oddities of quantum mechanics. Along the way, Orzel visits the delicate negotiations involved in Gregorian calendar reform, the intricate and entirely unique system employed by the Maya, and how the problem of synchronizing clocks at different locations ultimately required us to abandon the idea of time as an absolute and universal quantity. Sharp and engaging, A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself. For those interested in science, technology, or history, or anyone who’s ever wondered about the instruments that divide our days into moments: the time you spend reading this book may fly, and it is certain to be well spent.
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884024033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes written by Anthony F. Aveni and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony F. Aveni gathers specialists from diverse fields to discuss temporal concepts gleaned from the people of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Essays address how they reckon and register time and how they sense time and its moral dimensions. To them, time is a feature of the process of perception, not just the sharp present ingrained in Western minds.
Author : Alan Burdick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141654027X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Why Time Flies written by Alan Burdick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Why Time Flies] captures us. Because it opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time.” —The New York Times Book Review “Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures.” —Science “Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we’re bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that “now” actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist’s lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.
Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633692574
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) written by Clayton M. Christensen and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Author : Donald J. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226897222
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Times Past written by Donald J. Wilcox and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.
Author : Nicole Forsgren, PhD
Publisher : IT Revolution
ISBN 13 : 1942788355
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Accelerate written by Nicole Forsgren, PhD and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Shingo Publication Award Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations. Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance. This book is ideal for management at every level.
Author : College Entrance Examination Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457301568
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Springboard Mathematics written by College Entrance Examination Board and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SpringBoard Mathematics is a highly engaging, student-centered instructional program. This revised edition of SpringBoard is based on the standards defined by the College and Career Readiness Standards for Mathematics for each course. The program may be used as a core curriculum that will provide the instructional content that students need to be prepared for future mathematical courses.
Author : Masatoshi Kajita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750321242
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Measuring Time written by Masatoshi Kajita and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fascinating book Masatoshi Kajita recounts the importance of precise measurements and their inherent uncertainty, before telling the story of humankind's efforts to define and measure time with increasing accuracy, culminating in the development of atomic clocks. These improvements in the accurate measurement of time and frequency have played a pivotal role in the development of modern science; including the confirmation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and the recent detection of gravity waves. Furthermore, such measurements afforded by atomic clocks and other mechanisms are being used to examine key questions about the very fundamentals of our universe, the possibility of symmetry violation and even testing the idea that there may be variation of the fundamental constants themselves over time." -- Prové de l'editor.
Author : Henri Poincaré
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530599233
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Time written by Henri Poincaré and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Poincare was a famous mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher. "Think of two consciousnesses, which are like two worlds impenetrable one to the other. By what right do we strive to put them into the same mold, to measure them by the same standard? Is it not as if one strove to measure length with a gram or weight with a meter? And besides, why do we speak of measuring? We know perhaps that some fact is anterior to some other, but not by how much it is anterior. Therefore two difficulties: (1) Can we transform psychologic time, which is qualitative, into a quantitative time? (2) Can we reduce to one and the same measure facts which transpire in different worlds?...""
Author : Ole E Barndorff-nielsen
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9814678600
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Change Of Time And Change Of Measure (Second Edition) written by Ole E Barndorff-nielsen and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change of Time and Change of Measure provides a comprehensive account of two topics that are of particular significance in both theoretical and applied stochastics: random change of time and change of probability law.Random change of time is key to understanding the nature of various stochastic processes, and gives rise to interesting mathematical results and insights of importance for the modeling and interpretation of empirically observed dynamic processes. Change of probability law is a technique for solving central questions in mathematical finance, and also has a considerable role in insurance mathematics, large deviation theory, and other fields.The book comprehensively collects and integrates results from a number of scattered sources in the literature and discusses the importance of the results relative to the existing literature, particularly with regard to mathematical finance.In this Second Edition a Chapter 13 entitled 'A Wider View' has been added. This outlines some of the developments that have taken place in the area of Change of Time and Change of Measure since the publication of the First Edition. Most of these developments have their root in the study of the Statistical Theory of Turbulence rather than in Financial Mathematics and Econometrics, and they form part of the new research area termed 'Ambit Stochastics'.
Author : Lyndon Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Time Measurement written by Lyndon Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dianne Irving
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1433391384
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Tracking Time written by Dianne Irving and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is something that helps us keep track of our lives including things in the past, present, and future. Before, people used the sun and the cycle of the moon to tell the time. After many different contraptions were invented to measure time, advanced clocks, such a quartz crystal clocks, and atomic clocks were invented that help us keep track of time. It is not the same time all over the world--each part of the world is in a different time zone.
Author : Anjana Chatterjee
Publisher : Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
ISBN 13 : 1682973212
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Measure Up written by Anjana Chatterjee and published by Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Math applies the Singapore Math teaching method to the math curriculum. With a simple and engaging format, including guidance for parents and teachers, this is a valuable resource for learning length, weight size and capacity.
Author : Marc D. Moskovitz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276614
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Measure written by Marc D. Moskovitz and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While our modern concepts of musical time and tempo have been largely shaped by the metronome, musicians have long depended on a variety of methods, including the use of hands and feet, the incorporation of markings and pendulums. Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time tells the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of external measuring devices and continuing to the present-day use of the smartphone app. The book opens with a consideration of Renaissance images that inform our early understanding of the physical gestures associated with musical timekeeping. Early music treatises provide a first-hand glimpse into a musical world when timekeeping was bound up with motions of the body and the pulsing of the human heart. The adoption of the simple pendulum and the incorporation of tempo-related language profoundly altered the musical landscape. Such approaches allowed composers to communicate ideas about speed and slowness with increasing precision. Yet neither language nor the pendulum's natural swing proved sufficient to meet the needs of a changing musical world. Enter the metronome, a device that ultimately allowed musicians to consider musical time in real time. A triumph of innovation, the metronome was celebrated by many as the fulfillment of a centuries-long search. Yet not everyone was convinced of its benefits. From Beethoven to Ligeti, the book looks to a number of influential composers who have used or refused this revolutionary machine. Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time follows a host of brilliant polymaths, trailblazing musicians and intrepid inventors in search of ever more accurate and practical ways to measure and master one of music's most critical and challenging aspects.
Author : Sir Henry H. Cunynghame
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736420714
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Time and Clocks written by Sir Henry H. Cunynghame and published by anboco. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we read the works of Homer, or Virgil, or Plato, or turn to the later productions of Dante, of Shakespeare, of Milton, and the host of writers and poets who have done so much to instruct and amuse us, and to make our lives good and agreeable, we are apt to look with some disappointment upon present times. And when we turn to the field of art and compare Greek statues and Gothic or Renaissance architecture with our modern efforts, we must feel bound to admit our inferiority to our ancestors. And this leads us perhaps to question whether our age is the equal of those which have gone before, or whether the human intellect is not on the decline. This feeling, however, proceeds from a failure to remember that each age of the world has its peculiar points of strength, as well as of weakness. During one period that self-denying patriotism and zeal for the common good will be developing, which2 is necessary for the formation of society. During another, the study of the principles of morality and religion will be in the ascendant. During another the arts will take the lead; during another, poetry, tragedy, and lyric poetry and prose will be cultivated; during another, music will take its turn, and out of rude peasant songs will evolve the harmony of the opera. To our age is reserved the glory of being easily the foremost in scientific discovery.
Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823989171
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Keeping Time Through the Ages written by Janey Levy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how time has been measured through history, by such methods as observation of natural cycles and different kinds of clocks and watches.
