Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Bohren, Craig F. (9780486417387)

Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics

by Bohren, Craig F. , Walker, Jearl , Bohren

Paperback - English

Memorable and thoroughly understandable science lessons, liberally sprinkled with humor, will fascinate beginning physics students as well as other readers in such chapters as "On a Clear Day You Can't See Forever," "Physics on a Manure Heap," "A Murder in Ceylon," and "Multiple Scattering at the Breakfast Table."

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0486417387

EAN

9780486417387

Publisher

DOVER PUBN INC

Publication Date

10 Jul 2001

Pages

224

Weight (kg)

0.29

Dimensions (cm)

23.8 x 15.6 x 1.2

About Author

Craig F. Bohren is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two popular scientific books, Clouds in a Glass of Beer (for which he received the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Author's Award) and What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?, also available from Wiley.<BR> DONALD R. HUFFMAN is Regents Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona. In 1983 he and colleague Wolfgang Kratschmer produced the first sample of C60, buckminsterfullerene. The pair was honored with the MRS medal and shared in the 1994 Hewlett-Packard Eu