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The Physics of everyday phenomena : readings from Scientific American / with an introd. by Jearl Walker.

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The Physics of everyday phenomena : readings from Scientific American / with an introd. by Jearl Walker.
Publication
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Scientific American, inc.
  • Walker, Jearl, 1945-
Description
86 p. : ill.; 30 cm.
Subject
  • Meteorological Concepts
  • Meteorology
  • Oceanography
  • Physics
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [83]-84.
Contents
The growth of snow crystals / B. J. Mason -- The aurora / Syun-Ichi Akasofu -- The shape of raindrops / James E. McDonald -- River meanders / Luna B. Leopold and W. B. Langbein -- Thunder / Arthur A. Few -- Why the sea is salt / Ferren MacIntyre -- Ocean waves / Willard Bascom -- Fog / Joel N. Myers.
ISBN
  • 0716711257
  • 0716711265 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^79009287^
OCLC
5101808
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library