Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics

Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics
ISBN-10
1107197287
ISBN-13
9781107197282
Series
Time
Category
Science
Pages
412
Language
English
Published
2018-10-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Dennis D. McCarthy

Description

This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.

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