Formation Of The Solar System, The: Theories Old And New (2nd Edition)
Formation Of The Solar System, The: Theories Old And New (2nd Edition)

Author: Michael Mark Woolfson

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1783265248

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This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the field. Unlike other authors, Michael Woolfson focuses on the formation of the solar system, engaging the reader in an intelligent yet accessible discussion of the development of ideas about how the Solar System formed from ancient times to the present.Within the last five decades new observations and new theoretical advances have transformed the way scientists think about the problem of finding a plausible theory. Spacecraft and landers have explored the planets of the Solar System, observations have been made of Solar-System bodies outside the region of the planets and planets have been detected and observed around many solar-type stars. This new edition brings in the most recent discoveries, including the establishment of dwarf planets and challenges to the ‘standard model’ of planet formation — the Solar Nebula Theory.While presenting the most up-to-date material and the underlying science of the theories described, the book avoids technical jargon and terminology. It thus remains a digestible read for the non-expert interested reader, whilst being detailed and comprehensive enough to be used as an undergraduate physics and astronomy textbook, where the formation of the solar system is a key part of the course.Michael Woolfson is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of York and is an award-winning crystallographer and astronomer.

Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

Author: J. R. Young

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9781330402931

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Excerpt from Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Its Applications to the Principles of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy; With the Logarithmic and Trigonometrical Tables It is the design of this treatise to establish the theory of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry analytically, and to present that theory, together with some of its most interesting and valuable applications, in a form fitted for elementary instruction. Of late years several analytical works on Trigonometry have been published in this country; but, as they are confined almost entirely to the theory of the subject, it may be questioned whether, to many young students, they prove much else than so many collections of mere algebraical exercises. Yet a book upon so practical a subject as Trigonometry ought undoubtedly to be something more than this, and ought not to be considered as complete when the various calculations which the science involves, and which its name implies, are wholly omitted. The symbolical expression of a practical rule, in algebraic language, will often, to the young student, but indistinctly point out the numerical operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

Author: Olinthus Gregory

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781334013737

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Excerpt from Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Applications to Heights and Distances, Projections of the Sphere, Dialling, Astronomy, the Solution of Equations, and Geodesic Operations Plane Trigonometry geometrically, and haveshown the application of that theory to the logarithmic solutions Of the usual cases into which this portion of the subject is conveniently distributed. I have endeavoured to conduct these introductory inquiries with the utmost perspicuity; that the student, by obtaining a thorough comprehension of the principal topics of research, and by seeing a little of their utility, may enter with the greater relish upon the subsequent investigations; and by tracing the correspondence of these results with such as will afterwards appear in the analytical theory of Plane Trigonometry, may be prepared to lean with full confidence upon the analytical formula that are in other places to be laid before him. The deductions from theory in the succeeding chapters are usually Obtained by analytical processes; and their utility is shown in the logarithmic and trigonometric solution of a great number of problems, classified under the particular heads of the several applications, as specified in the ta ble of contents. The whole, except what relates to the minute variations of the sides and angle of triangles, and'the differential analogies which apply to them, may, I am persuaded, be readily comprehended by any per son who is tolerably conversant with the elements of Geometry and Algebra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.