Christmas at the Royal Institution : an Anthology of Lectures By M Faraday, J Tyndall, R S Ball, S P Thompson, E R Lankester, W H Bragg, W L Bragg, R L Gregory, and I Stewart.

Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frank, James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: World Scientific 2007.
Temas:
Royal Institution Christmas lectures.
Royal Institution Christmas lectures
Discoveries in science.
Découvertes scientifiques.
Discoveries in science
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface Susan Greenfield
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Biographical Notes on Lecturers
  • The Correlation of the Physical Forces; Michael Faraday
  • Carbon or Charcoal8212;Coal Gas8212;Respiration and Its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle8212;Conclusion; Michael Faraday
  • The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers; John Tyndall
  • 1. Clouds, Rains, and Rivers.
  • 2.
  • 3. The Waves of Light.
  • 4. The Waves of Heat which produce the Vapour of our Atmosphere and melt our Glaciers.
  • 5. Experiments to prove the foregoing Statements.
  • 6. Oceanic Distillation.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXPERIMENTS.
  • 7. Tropical Rains.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXPERIMENTS.
  • 8. Mountain Condensers.
  • 9. Architecture of Snow.
  • 10. Atomic Poles.
  • Lessons in Electricity; John Tyndall
  • 29. Physiological Effects of the Electric Discharge.
  • 30. Atmospheric Electricity.
  • 31. The Returning Stroke.
  • 32. The Leyden Battery, its Currents, and some of their Effects.
  • Stars Robert; Stawell Ball
  • WE TRY TO MAKE A MAP.
  • THE STARS ARE SUNS.
  • THE NUMBERS OF THE STARS.
  • THE CLUSTERS OF STARS.
  • THE RANK OF THE EARTH AS A GLOBE IN SPACE.
  • THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS.
  • THE BRIGHTNESS AND COLOUR OF STARS.
  • DOUBLE STARS.
  • HOW WE FIND WHAT THE STARS ARE MADE OF.
  • THE NEBUL198;.
  • PHOTOGRAPHING THE NEBUL198;.
  • CONCLUSION.
  • R246;ntgen Light; Silvanus Phillips Thompson
  • The Great Extinct Reptiles8212;Dinosaurs from the Oolites8212;The Pariasaurus and Inostransevia from the Trias of North Russia and South Africa8212;Marine Reptiles; Edwin Ray Lankester
  • The Atoms of Which Things Are Made; William Henry Bragg
  • Our Electrical Supply; William Lawrence Bragg
  • 1. THE FUNCTION OF A SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL SUPPLY
  • 2. ELECTRICAL UNITS
  • 3. ALTERNATING CURRENT
  • 4. WHY ALTERNATING CURRENT IS USED; TRANSFORMERS
  • 5. EDDY CURRENTS; ALTERNATING CURRENT SUPPLY METERS
  • 6. POWER STATIONS
  • 7. THE LOAD ON A POWER STATION
  • 8. THE GRID
  • 9. TRANSFORMING AND SWITCHING SUB-STATIONS
  • Objects and Pictures; Richard Langton Gregory
  • Gallery of Monsters; Ian Stewart
  • THE CHAOS GAME
  • BONSAI MOUNTAINS
  • FRACTAL DIMENSION
  • FAMILY TREES
  • MATHEMATICS CAN BE FERN
  • PASCALS EVERYWHERE
  • CALCULATOR CHAOS
  • DONT BLAME THE BUTTERFLY
  • ATTRACTORS
  • CHAOS IN THE ASTEROID BELT
  • NOW FOR THE HAPPY ENDING ...
  • Index.

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