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Probing the Sky with Radio Waves
Chen-Pang Yeang
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Description for Probing the Sky with Radio Waves
Hardcover. By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. This title documents this monumental discovery and the advances in radio ionospheric propagation research that occurred in its aftermath. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 halftones, 68 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG; PHK; TJKR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the curvature of the Earth. Theorists puzzled over this for nearly twenty years before physicists confirmed the zig-zag theory, a solution that led to the discovery of a layer in the Earth's upper atmosphere that bounces radio waves earthward - the ionosphere. In "Probing the Sky with Radio Waves", Chen-Pang Yeang documents this monumental discovery and the advances in ... Read more
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the curvature of the Earth. Theorists puzzled over this for nearly twenty years before physicists confirmed the zig-zag theory, a solution that led to the discovery of a layer in the Earth's upper atmosphere that bounces radio waves earthward - the ionosphere. In "Probing the Sky with Radio Waves", Chen-Pang Yeang documents this monumental discovery and the advances in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226015194
SKU
V9780226015194
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About Chen-Pang Yeang
Chen-Pang Yeang is associate professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Probing the Sky with Radio Waves
"Chen-Pang Yeang's book is the major contribution to our knowledge of how physical theory and electrical experimentation worked together to explain the movement of radio waves beyond the horizon." (A. David Wunsch, University of Massachusetts Lowell)"