Energy Flow and Earth: How Earth Works
Whitehead, John A.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-03
- 售價: $2,090
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,986
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 149
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031626931
- ISBN-13: 9783031626937
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商品描述
This book shows how energy flow plays a major role in: plate tectonics; the formation of continents; ocean basins; and building mountains. Energy flow also produces and drives volcanos, Earth's magnetic field, the wind belts, our weather, and ocean circulation. The studies of convection cells, eddies, and energy flow all contribute to our understanding of how they are all formed and driven. Insight accumulated during 55 years of research is presented using simple fluid mechanics. The mathematics is algebra. No calculus or advanced geometry is used, so the text is readable to a broad audience. Some laboratory and computer studies are described that help to visualize the applications. This book should appeal to anyone interested in how energy flow is responsible for much of the earth's larger "workings". In addition to the general public, these include people who work in applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, earth science, and climate.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書展示了能量流如何在板塊構造、大陸形成、海洋盆地和山脈建造中扮演重要角色。能量流還產生並驅動火山、地球的磁場、風帶、天氣和海洋循環。對流細胞、渦旋和能量流的研究都有助於我們理解它們是如何形成和驅動的。這本書使用簡單的流體力學來呈現55年研究累積的見解。數學部分僅使用代數,不需要微積分或高級幾何,因此適合廣大讀者閱讀。書中還描述了一些實驗室和電腦研究,有助於形象化應用。這本書應該吸引任何對能量流如何負責地球許多重要運作的人感興趣。除了一般大眾外,還包括從事應用數學、流體力學、地球科學和氣候研究的人。