Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics

by P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Dennis D. McCarthy

In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which our time scales are based. This volume presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping up to the present day. It outlines the progression of time based on sundials, water clocks, and the Earth's rotation, to time measurement using pendulum clocks, quartz crystal clocks, and atomic frequency standards...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107197287
• ISBN13: 9781107197282
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 10.0"