Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produce…
This book brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. By presenting a wide diversity of studies in a single volume, it provides authoritative introductions to scholarly co…
Harrison decoded: towards a perfect pendulum clock
Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one…
Diverses questions de mécanique et de thermodynamique classiques et relativistes
by Lochak, Georges, Fondation Louis de Broglie, Broglie, Louis de, Physiker, Frankreich, Broglie, Louis de, Physicien, France, Broglie, Louis de, Physicist, France
fromLecture notes in physics. New series m: monographs