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What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics

, by Bohren, Craig F.

What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Bohren, Craig F., 9780486453361

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ISBN: 9780486453361 | 0486453367
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/17/2006

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Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

This sequel toClouds in a Glass of Beermakes the world of atmospheric physics even more accessible to readers without a scientific background. Abounding in lively writing and fun-filled, easy-to-perform experiments, it offers memorable ways to learn about an intriguing branch of science. 1991 edition.

Window Watching

1

(12)

More Is Not Always the Answer

1

(1)

Why Does Dew Form on the Insides of Windows?

2

(2)

Dew Patterns on Windows

4

(4)

Frozen Dew and Frost

8

(5)

Interference Patterns on Garage Door Windows

13

(12)

A Winter Night's Experiment

14

(1)

Interference Fringes in Thin Films

14

(4)

Why Must Films Be Thin to Give Colors?

18

(1)

Why a Series of Regularly Spaced Fringes?

19

(2)

Resolution of One Puzzle

21

(1)

Resolution of a Mystery

22

(3)

Window Watching and Polarized Light

25

(12)

Elliptically Polarized Light

26

(1)

Fresnel-Arago Laws

27

(1)

Transformations of Polarized Light

28

(5)

Back to Airplane Windows

33

(4)

Fame from Window Watching: Malus and Polarized Light

37

(12)

Polarization upon Reflection

37

(3)

The Scattering Interpretation of Polarization upon Reflection

40

(2)

Why Brewster Angle, Not Malus Angle?

42

(1)

A Few Misconceptions Dispelled

43

(4)

Back to the Airplane Window

47

(2)

Light Bulb Climatology

49

(12)

Thermal Inertia Is Not a Bad Word

49

(3)

Temperature and Luminance Variation

52

(2)

Observations of Luminance Variations of Lamps

54

(3)

Light Bulb Climatology

57

(2)

Caveats and Conclusions

59

(2)

Highway Mirages

61

(10)

A Mirage Is Not an Illusion

61

(1)

Refractive Index Gradients

62

(2)

Ray Tracing in a Nonuniform Atmosphere

64

(2)

Multiple Images

66

(5)

The Greenhouse Effect Revisited

71

(12)

Cooling Curves

72

(1)

Emissivity

73

(4)

Do Good Absorbers Go to Heaven?

77

(2)

Emissivity and Climate Change

79

(4)

Boil and Bubble, Toil and Trouble

83

(14)

The Ideal and the Real

84

(1)

Boiling Means Bubbles

85

(1)

Bubble Growth in Water

86

(2)

Can Boiling Water Rise above Its Boiling Point?

88

(2)

Why Add Salt to Your Spaghetti Water?

90

(1)

Ebullition Altimetry

91

(6)

An Essay on Dew

97

(16)

A Controlled Experiment Is Preferable to a Shouting Match

97

(2)

Dew Formation

99

(1)

Nocturnal Radiational Cooling

100

(2)

Nocturnal Cooling of Metals

102

(4)

In the Calm of the Night

106

(1)

The Fruits of Teaching

107

(2)

Frost at Edges

109

(4)

Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun

113

(8)

The Solar Irradiance

113

(1)

Pincushion Analogy

114

(1)

Estimating the Solar Irradiance

115

(1)

Season to Taste

116

(5)

Temperature Inversions Have Cold Bottoms

121

(10)

Demonstrating Atmospheric Stability

121

(4)

Temperature Differences

125

(2)

Los Angeles Smog

127

(1)

Excuse My Dust

128

(3)

Water Vapor Mysticism

131

(10)

Common Sense and Cooling Curves

132

(1)

Evaporative Cooling

133

(3)

Molecular Interpretation of Gas Conductivity

136

(2)

Origins of a Fallacy

138

(1)

Water Vapor Mysticism

139

(2)

Strange Footprints in Snow

141

(14)

The Invariance of Optical Thickness

141

(4)

A Mystery Solved

145

(1)

A Few Experiments and Another Mystery

145

(3)

The Nude-in-the-Shower Phenomenon

148

(7)

The Doppler Effect

155

(10)

A Train of Thought

155

(3)

A Smattering of History

158

(1)

A Doppler Effect Demonstration

159

(2)

A Misconception Dispelled

161

(2)

Doppler Radar

163

(2)

All That's Best of Dark and Bright

165

(14)

Objects Near and Far

165

(2)

The Measure of Directions in the Plane and in Space

167

(1)

Irradiance, Radiance, Luminance, and Brightness

168

(4)

The Subjectivity of Brightness

172

(7)

Selected Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading

179

(8)

Index

187

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