Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by Luca Montemagno
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Un viaggio semiserio, ma profondo, alla scoperta dei concetti fondamentali e dei misteri insiti nella fisica quantistica.
Una incursione nei meandri dei paradossi e dei fenomeni più anomali della fisica moderna, verso una nuova visione dell'universo e delle cose.
Lo spaziotempo, la...
by Luca Montemagno
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Lasciatevi guidare lungo un percorso curioso e sorprendente, alla scoperta di qualcosa di veramente paradossale e coinvolgente.
Il tragitto sarà ricco di interessanti scoperte e vi aiuterà a comprendere molti dei principali fenomeni quantistici, e dei relativi paradossi, che tuttora contribuiscono...
by Marcello Taccucci
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Siamo a metà del XXI sec. Due anziani coniugi, emigranti italiani stanziatisi a Los Angeles già da mezzo secolo, vivono serenamente la loro vecchiaia in una casetta di periferia. Lui è uno scienziato a riposo. Il figlio Pegaso, anch’egli scienziato, ha preso il suo posto nel laboratorio di ricerche...
Infinite Worlds
The People and Places of Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A stunning, unprecedented collection of photographs and essays that goes behind the scenes at NASA, in which the humanity of the astronauts, engineers, scientists, technicians, and ground crews that contributed in saving the Hubble Space Telescope are revealed.
Michael Soluri has been photographing...
Black Holes
New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Black holes, once just fascinating theoretical predictions of how gravity warps space-time according to Einstein's theory, are now generally accepted as astrophysical realities, formed by post-supernova collapse, or as supermassive black holes mysteriously found at the cores of most galaxies, powering...
Equivalence
Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
JWST, a large, deployable telescope intended to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is one of NASA's most complex and expensive projects, at an anticipated cost of $8.8 billion. Congress set an $8 billion JWST development cost cap in 2011, and the remaining $837 million is for its operations...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This comprehensive 2017 report on the aeronautical and space activities of the U.S. Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2016 has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 directed the annual Aeronautics...
by Bill Leatherbarrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The moon has always been the most obvious feature in our night sky. It is our nearest celestial neighbour, orbiting the earth at an average distance of 384,400 kilometers, and is large enough to display significant detail even to the unaided eye. Our moon has drawn observers since the dawn of humankind,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This document chronicles dockings, module additions, configuration changes, and major events of Mir Principal Expeditions 17 through 21, November 1994 through August 1996. Although Mir has hosted international crews since its early days, increasing focus was placed on international cooperation beginning...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is an excellent history of the famous X-15 rocket plane, called by Neil Armstrong "the most successful research airplane in history." This is a truly authoritative work covering all aspects of the historic program.Because...
First-stage LISA Data Processing and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Ultraprecise Inter-satellite Laser Ranging, Clock Synchronization and Novel Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The core of the thesis is devoted to the preprocessing of the interferometric link data for a LISA constellation, specifically developing optimal Kalman...
Emission of Radio Waves in Particle Showers
Validation of Microscopic Simulations with the SLAC T-510 Experiment and their Potential in the Future Square Kilometre Array
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This thesis offers the first laboratory validation of microscopic simulations of radio emission from particle showers, including a detailed description of the simulation study. It presents a potential future avenue for resolving the mass composition of cosmic rays via radio detection of air showers.
Particle...
Loop Quantum Gravity
The First 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the perspective of younger leading researchers. It takes the reader from the basics to recent advances, thereby bridging an important gap.
The aim is two-fold — to provide a contemporary introduction to the...