James Jespersen Books
From Sundials to Atomic Clocks: Understanding Time and Frequency, Second Revised Edition
By Jane Fitz Randolph, James Jespersen
It's present everywhere but occupies no space. We can spend it, but we can't destroy it or even change it, and there's never any more or less of it. Everyone knows what it is and uses it every day,...
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Time & clocks for the space age
Discusses the history of time measurement and the evolution of measuring efforts and devices, describes ways of using precise time, and outlines some of the scientific studies in which time plays a...
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Mercury's web
Discusses ways in which we communicate and describes how messages are interpreted to provide information. Also examines the use of electronic impulses to send, receive, process, and store information.
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From Quarks to Quasars
Discusses the theories advanced over the past several hundred years explaining the nature of the universe
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Looking at the invisible universe
Discusses the aspects of our universe that we do not see and how they were discovered.
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Rams, roms & robots
An examination of computers, how they work, their strengths and limitations, their many uses, and their future potential.
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