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100			_aSegre, Gino; Stack, John
245			_aUnearthing fermi's geophysics: based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941
260			_aChicago _bUniversity of Chicago Press _c2021
300			_a285 pp.
505			_aIntroduction; Gravity and precession of the earth; Thermodynamics of the earth's atmosphere; Loss of planetary atmosphere; Liquid drop physics; Coriolis effects in the earth's atmosphere; Thermal properties and radiation at the earth's surface; Thermal properties of the ocean; Gravity waves; Tide physics; General properties of earthquakes; Seismic waves and seismology; Surface seismic waves and oscillations of the earth; Radioactivity and the earth's interior; The physics of heat flow in the earth; Earth magnetism; Atmospheric electricity; Waves and plasma in the earth's high atmosphere
520			_a"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) is known for his work on experimental particle physics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics; his contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War II; and for his particular ability to condense complicated problems into approximations for understanding and testing theory in a variety of scientific disciplines. This book is unusual for two reasons; first it is essentially a reconstructed course book from Fermi's notes by two physics professors, Gino Segrè and John Stack, including photographic facsimiles of Fermi's handwritten calculations. Second, it is on a topic, geophysics, that we do not usually associate with Fermi"-- Provided by publisher
650			_aPhysics; Geophysics
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