Nature's Electricity
Author: Charles K. Adams
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures over 20 learning-by-observing experiments that demonstrate piezoelectricity, static electricity, & atmospheric electricity.
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The Electrical Nature of Storms
Author: D. R. MacGorman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780195073379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRapid progress during the last twenty years has created a host of new technologies for studying electrical storms, including lightning mapping systems, new radars, satellite sensors, and new ways of measuring electric field and particle charge. This book explains how these advances have revolutionized our understanding. The books provides substantial background material, making it accessible to a broad scientific audience.
The Theory of Electricity
Author: George Henry Livens
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 738
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnergy and Civilization
Author: Vaclav Smil
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 0262536161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Energy in Nature and Society
Author: Vaclav Smil
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0262195658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fueled civilization and its environmental consequences.
Natures Power
Author: Terry Wall
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-10-07
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1465305092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature’s Power is a powerful call for change in our approach to achieving meaningful and sustainable wellbeing. Combining Terry Wall’s personal journey of discovery with up-to-date research by respected scientists, it reveals uncomfortable facts about our current state of health and the disease based business model that drives it. It has the potential to refocus the health and nutrition industries and in doing so, bring immense benefit to millions of people. It should be read by anyone seeking to improve their personal health and wellbeing, and that of their children.
An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
Author: James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0486174638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlbert Einstein characterized the work of James Clerk Maxwell as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." Max Planck went even further, declaring that "he achieved greatness unequalled," and Richard Feynman asserted that "From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics." Maxwell made numerous other contributions to the advancement of science, but the greatest work of his life was devoted to electricity. An Elementary Treatise on Electricity appeared at a time when very few books on electrical measurements were available to students, and its compact treatment not only elucidates the theory of electricity but also serves to develop electrical ideas in readers' minds. The author describes experiments that demonstrate the principal facts relating an electric charge as a quantity capable of being measured, deductions from these facts, and the exhibition of electrical phenomena. This volume, published posthumously from Maxwell's lecture notes at the Cavendish Laboratory — which he founded at the University of Cambridge — is supplemented by a selection of articles from his landmark book, Electricity and Magnetism. A classic of science, this volume is an eminently suitable text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.
Natural Urges
Author: ChrisTina Leimer
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780971795006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur spirit knows what it needs. By allowing it free reign to travel naturally in our daily life, it leads us to the places we need to go, the people we need to meet, and the personal and universal truths we must understand to evolve and grow. Natural Urges is about listening to our spirit's voice, about finding and following our internal compass, about the natural energy processes underlying daily life that our spirit is aware of but our logical minds may never be able to explain. It's about aligning ourselves with the natural energy systems of our planet and the universe to transform our lives and our world.
Applied Electricity
Author: J. Paley Yorke
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower Density
Author: Vaclav Smil
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0262326930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.” —Bill Gates In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses. Smil shows that careful quantification, critical appraisals, and revealing comparisons of power densities make possible a deeper understanding of the ways we harness, convert, and use energies. Conscientious assessment of power densities, he argues, proves particularly revealing when contrasting the fossil fuel–based energy system with renewable energy conversions. Smil explains that modern civilization has evolved as a direct expression of the high power densities of fossil fuel extraction. He argues that our inevitable (and desirable) move to new energy arrangements involving conversions of lower-density renewable energy sources will require our society—currently dominated by megacities and concentrated industrial production—to undergo a profound spatial restructuring of its energy system.
