Description: Probing the Sky with Radio Waves : From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science, Paperback by Yeang, Chen-pang, ISBN 022627439X, ISBN-13 9780226274393, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 radio ionospheric propagation research that occurred in its aftermath. Yeang illustrates how the discovery of the ionosphere transformed atmospheric science from what had been primarily an observational endeavor into an experimental science. It also gave researchers a host of new theories, experiments, and instruments with which to better understand the atmosphere&;s constitution, the origin of atmospheric electricity, and how the sun and geomagnetism shape the Earth&;s atmosphere. This book will be warmly welcomed by scholars of astronomy, atmospheric science, geoscience, military and institutional history, and the history and philosophy of science and technology, as well as by radio amateurs and electrical engineers interested in historical perspectives on their craft.
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Book Title: Probing the Sky with Radio Waves : From Wireless Technology to th
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: Probing the Sky with Radio Waves : From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Waves & Wave Mechanics, Physics / Geophysics, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, History, Earth Sciences / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Author: Chen-Pang Yeang
Subject Area: Science
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
