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The energy of nature /
This book explores energy's role in nature - how and where it originates, what it does, and what becomes of it. Drawing on a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics, chemistry, and biology to all the earth sciences, as well as on her own lifelong experience as a naturalist, the autho...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Energy is everywhere
- What is energy? : some preliminary physics
- Energy and its ultimate fate
- Solar energy and the upper atmosphere
- Energy in the lower atmosphere : the weather near the ground
- The sun, the wind, and the sea
- The energy of ocean waves
- The energy of the tides
- How surface energy shapes the land
- Chemical energy
- Energy enters the biosphere
- Further travels of energy in the biosphere
- The warmth of the earth : nuclear reactions sustain all life
- The earth's internal energy
- How the earth sheds its warmth
- Electromagnetic energy
- Wave energy : sound waves and seismic waves
- Wave energy : electromagnetic waves
- How energy is used.