Unearthing Fermi's geophysics based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941

Unearthing Fermi's geophysics based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segrè, Gino
Other Authors: Stack, John (Physicist), Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Geophysics.
EBSCO eBooks
Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3028273.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Fermi's Notes
  • 1.2 Plan of the Book
  • 2. Gravity and the Earth
  • 2.1 The Earth's Gravity
  • 2.2 Earth's Gravitational Potential
  • 2.3 Pressure at the Center of the Earth
  • 2.4 The Moments of Inertia of the Earth
  • 2.5 Motions of the Earth's Axis
  • 2.6 Equinoxes and Solstices
  • 2.7 Precession of the Equinoxes
  • 2.8 Free Rotational Motion
  • 3. Heat and the Atmosphere
  • 3.1 First Law of Thermodynamics
  • 3.2 State Variables
  • 3.3 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 3.4 Ideal Gas
  • 3.5 Chemical Potential
  • 3.6 The Boundary between Phases
  • 3.7 Moist Air
  • 3.8 Atmospheric Composition and Temperature
  • 3.9 Temperature vs. Altitude
  • 3.10 The Upper Atmosphere
  • 4. Atmospheric Loss
  • 4.1 Maxwell Distribution
  • 4.2 Escape Velocity
  • 4.3 Lifetime of Atmosphere
  • 4.4 Magnitude of Particle Losses
  • 4.5 Helium
  • 4.6 Speed of Sound
  • 5. Liquid Drop Physics
  • 5.1 Vapor Pressure and Raindrops
  • 5.2 Liquid Drops Affect Vapor Pressure
  • 5.3 Properties of Falling Raindrops
  • 6. Coriolis Effects
  • 6.1 The Coriolis Force
  • 6.2 Coriolis Effects in the Atmosphere
  • 6.3 Hurricanes
  • 7. Radiation at the Surface
  • 7.1 Surface of the Earth
  • 7.2 Crust of the Earth
  • 7.3 Composition of the Oceans
  • 7.4 Surface Temperature Equilibrium
  • 7.5 Black Body Radiation
  • 7.6 Planck's Formula
  • 7.7 Special Cases
  • 8. Ocean Properties
  • 8.1 Heat Current
  • 8.2 The Heat Equation
  • 8.3 Diurnal Temperature Variation
  • 8.4 Temperature of Seawater
  • 8.5 Ocean Circulation
  • 9. Gravity Waves
  • 9.1 Dispersion Relations
  • 9.2 Euler's Equation
  • 9.3 Small Amplitude Surface Waves
  • 10. Tide Physics
  • 10.1 Effects of the Moon
  • 10.2 The Tidal Potential
  • 10.3 Water-Covered Earth
  • 10.4 Time Dependence of Tides
  • 10.5 Tides on Lakes and Seas
  • 11. Earthquake Properties
  • 12. Seismic Waves
  • 12.1 Elementary Seismographs
  • 12.2 Seismic Waves
  • 12.3 Strain and the Strain Tensor
  • 12.4 Stress and the Stress Tensor
  • 12.5 Hooke's Law
  • 12.6 Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
  • 12.7 Stress and Strain
  • 12.8 Newton's Law in a Solid
  • 12.9 The Equation of Motion for Displacement
  • 12.10 Longitudinal and Transverse
  • 12.11 Snell's Law for Elastic Waves
  • 13. Surface Seismic Waves
  • 13.1 Surface Waves
  • 13.2 Oscillations of the Earth
  • 13.3 Breather Mode
  • 14. Radioactivity
  • 14.1 Historical Note
  • 14.2 The Sixth Washington Conference
  • 14.3 The Earth's Density
  • 14.4 Estimates of the Age of the Earth
  • 14.5 Radioactive Decay Equation
  • 14.6 Radioactivity within the Earth
  • 14.7 Uranium Decays
  • 14.8 Radioactive Dating
  • 15. Heat Flow in the Earth
  • 15.1 Surface Heat Variations
  • 15.2 Heat at the Earth's Surface
  • 15.3 Scales in Heat Conduction
  • 15.4 Heat Equilibrium
  • 16. Earth Magnetism
  • 16.1 Units
  • 16.2 Magnetic Moments
  • 16.3 Magnetic Field of the Earth
  • 16.4 Earth Magnetization
  • 16.5 Rotation of Charges

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