Research Catalog

Title

Environmental physics / Egbert Boeker, Rienk van Grondelle.

Author

Boeker, Egbert.

Publication

Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Grondelle, Rienk van.

Description

xii, 448 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Environmental sciences
• Physics
• Atmospheric physics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Essentials of Environmental Physics. 1.1. The Economic System. 1.2. Living in the Greenhouse. 1.3. Enjoying the Sun. 1.4. Transport of Matter Energy and Momentum. 1.5. The Social and Political Context -- 2. Elementary Spectroscopy. 2.1. Introduction to the Solar Spectrum. 2.2. Interaction of Light with Matter. 2.3. Biomolecules Ozone and UV Light -- 3. The Global Climate. 3.1. The Energy Balance: a Zero-Dimensional Greenhouse Model. 3.2. Elements of Weather and Climate. 3.3. Climate Variations and Modelling -- 4. Energy for Human Use. 4.1. Heat Transfer. 4.2. Energy from (mainly) Fossil Fuels. 4.3. The Price of Energy Conversion. 4.4. Renewable Energy Sources. 4.5. Nuclear Energy -- 5. Transport of Pollutants. 5.1. Diffusion. 5.2. Flow in Rivers. 5.3. Groundwater Flow. 5.4. The Equations of Fluid Dynamics. 5.5. Turbulence. 5.6. Gaussian Plumes in the Air. 5.7. Turbulent Jets and Plumes. 5.8. Particle Physics -- 6. Noise. 6.1. Basic Acoustics.
• 6.2. Human Perceptions and Noise Criteria. 6.3. Reducing the Transmission of Sound. 6.4. Active Control of Sound -- 7. Environmental Spectroscopy: Some Examples. 7.1. Overview of Spectroscopy. 7.2. Atomic Spectra. 7.3. Molecular Spectra. 7.4. Scattering. 7.5. Spectroscopy of the Inner Electrons of Atoms and Molecules. 7.6. Spectroscopic Techniques for Analysis of the Environment -- 8. The Context of Society. 8.1. Risk Estimation. 8.2. 'Energy and Environment' Policy. 8.3. Averting Catastrophe. 8.4. Renovating Our Thinking -- Appendix A Gauss, Delta and Error Functions -- Appendix B Some Vector Differentiations -- Appendix C Physical and Numerical Constants.

ISBN

• 0471939315 (cloth) :
• 0471951102 (paper) :

LCCN

94009542

OCLC

• 30027946
• ocm30027946

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries