Call number:
16/M 10.0472
Description / Table of Contents:
Filling the need for a book that conveys the current technology as well as the underlying history and physical background, the authors draw on their longstanding research experience to tell physicists and engineers how to measure time to the precision required for modern-day use. Contents: Time: Pre-Twentieth Century, Solar Time, Ephemerides, Variable Earth Rotation, Earth Rotation and Polar Motion, Ephemeris Time, Relativity and Time, Dynamical and Coordinate Time Scales, Clock Developments, Microwave Atomic Clocks, Optical Atomic Standards, Definition and Role of a Second, International Atomic Time, Coordinated Universal Time, Time in the Solar System, Time and Frequency Transfer, Modern Earth Orientation.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XXII, 351 S.
ISBN:
9783527407804
Location:
Reading room
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
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