Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation presents an intelligent and intelligible account of the essential principles underlying the design of satellite navigational systems—with introductory chapters placing them in context with the early development of navigational methods. The material is organized roughly as follows: the first third of the book deals with navigation in the natural world, the early history of navigation, navigating by the stars, precise mechanical chronometers for the determination of longitude at sea, and the development of precise quartz controlled clocks. Then, the reader is introduced to quantum ideas as a lead in to a discussion of microwave and optical interactions with atoms, atomic clocks, laser gyrocompasses, and time based navigation. The final third of the book deals with satellite-based systems, including orbit theory, early satellite navigation systems, and a detailed treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Intended for non-specialists with some knowledge of physics or engineering at the college level, this book covers in an intuitive manner a broad range of topics relevant to the evolution of surface and space navigation, with minimum mathematical formalism.

Astronomy. --- Navigation. --- Navigation, Primitive --- Geography. --- Geographical information systems. --- Remote sensing. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Locomotion --- Orientation --- Nautical astronomy --- Naval art and science --- Pilots and pilotage --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Engineering --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation presents an intelligent and intelligible account of the essential principles underlying the design of satellite navigational systems—with introductory chapters placing them in context with the early development of navigational methods. The material is organized roughly as follows: the first third of the book deals with navigation in the natural world, the early history of navigation, navigating by the stars, precise mechanical chronometers for the determination of longitude at sea, and the development of precise quartz controlled clocks. Then, the reader is introduced to quantum ideas as a lead in to a discussion of microwave and optical interactions with atoms, atomic clocks, laser gyrocompasses, and time based navigation. The final third of the book deals with satellite-based systems, including orbit theory, early satellite navigation systems, and a detailed treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Intended for non-specialists with some knowledge of physics or engineering at the college level, this book covers in an intuitive manner a broad range of topics relevant to the evolution of surface and space navigation, with minimum mathematical formalism.

Space research --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Astronomy --- Geography --- geodesie --- fotogrammetrie --- GIS (geografisch informatiesysteem) --- astronauten --- geografie --- ruimtevaart --- sensoren

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This work attempts to convey a broad understanding of the physical principles underlying the workings of these quantum-based atomic clocks, with introductory chapters placing them in context with the early development of mechanical clocks and the introduction of electronic time-keeping as embodied in the quartz-controlled clocks. While the book makes no pretense at being a history of atomic clocks, it nevertheless takes a historical perspective in its treatment of the subject. Intended for nonspecialists with some knowledge of physics or engineering, The Quantum Beat covers a wide range of salient topics relevant to atomic clocks, treated in a broad intuitive manner with a minimum of mathematical formalism. Detailed descriptions are given of the design principles of the rubidium, cesium, hydrogen maser, and mercury ion standards; the revolutionary changes that the advent of the laser has made possible, such as laser cooling, optical pumping, the formation of "optical molasses," and the cesium "fountain" standard; and the time-based global navigation systems, Loran-C and the Global Positioning System. Also included are topics that bear on the precision and absolute accuracy of standards, such as noise, resonance line shape, the relativistic Doppler effect as well as more general relativistic notions of time relevant to synchronization of remote clocks, and time reversal symmetry. This edition retains the essentially didactic approach to the treatment of the development of atomic clocks in the first edition, but brings up to date the extraordinary developments in recent years, culminating in clocks based on quantum resonance at optical frequency in individual ions confined in miniature electromagnetic traps. These, together with advances in the generation of wide-band coherent frequency combs spanning the spectrum as far as the optical range, has made possible the direct measurement of phenomena occurring at optical frequencies! As a result of these recent advances, in addition to the time-based GPS and LORAN C navigation systems treated in the first edition, other important applications of a fundamental scientific interest have become feasible. These include satellite-borne tests of the theory of general relativity and the equivalence principle on which it is based. As with the first edition, the book is intended for students and non-specialists; hence the material is not rigidly formal, is mostly self-contained, and presented in a broad intuitive manner with a minimum of mathematical formalism.

Plasma physics --- Atomic physics --- plasmafysica

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This, the second volume of Charged Particle Traps, is devoted to applications, complementing the first volume’s comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of charged particle traps, their many variants and refinements. In recent years, applications of far reaching importance have emerged ranging from the ultra-precise mass determinations of elementary particles and their antiparticles and short-lived isotopes, to high-resolution Zeeman spectroscopy on multiply-charged ions, to microwave and optical spectroscopy, some involving "forbidden" transitions from metastable states of such high resolution that optical frequency standards are realized by locking lasers to them. Further the potential application of trapped ions to quantum computing is explored, based on the extraordinary quantum state coherence made possible by the particle isolation. Consideration is given to the Paul and Penning traps as potential quantum information processors.

Electromagnetic fields. --- Plasma confinement. --- Trapped ions. --- Plasma confinement --- Electromagnetic fields --- Trapped ions --- Electricity & Magnetism --- Atomic Physics --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Confined plasma --- Confinement of plasma --- Plasma, Confined --- Plasma containment --- Plasma control --- Plasma isolation --- Ion trapping --- Ionic trapping --- Trapping of ions --- Physics. --- Atoms. --- Matter. --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement. --- Nuclear engineering. --- Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics. --- Nuclear Engineering. --- Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction. --- Plasma Physics. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Containerless processing --- Controlled fusion --- High temperature plasmas --- Pinch effect (Physics) --- Ionic mobility --- Ions --- Nuclear Energy. --- Nuclear energy. --- Measurement   . --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Matter --- Stereochemistry --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement --- Constitution