A Guide to Chronometry and Time Including Units, Standards, Orders of Magnitude, and More

By: Sand, Charlene

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of chronometry, the science of the measurement of time or timekeeping. Also known as 'temporal measurement, ' it has occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy. Periodic events and periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples include the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, the swing of a pendulum, and the beat of a heart. Currently, the international unit of time, the second, is defined in terms of radiation emitted by caesium atoms. Read about this as well as other standards of time including the Barycentric Coordinate Time, civil time, daylight saving time, and much more.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1276168837
• ISBN13: 9781276168830
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Webster's Digital Services
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"