Early Solar Physics
The Commonwealth and International Library: Selected Readings in Physics
- 1st Edition - January 21, 2016
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Author: A. J. Meadows
- Editor: D. Ter Haar
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 0 6 6 5 3 - 0
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 4 1 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 6 5 8 - 3
Early Solar Physics reviews developments in solar physics, particularly the advent of solar spectroscopy and the discovery of relationships between the various layers of the solar… Read more
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Early Solar Physics reviews developments in solar physics, particularly the advent of solar spectroscopy and the discovery of relationships between the various layers of the solar atmosphere and between the different forms of solar activity. Topics covered include solar observations during 1843; chemical analysis of the solar atmosphere; the spectrum of a solar prominence; and the solar eclipse of December 12, 1871. Spectroscopic observations of the sun are also presented. This book is comprised of 30 chapters and begins with an overview of ideas about the sun in the mid-nineteenth century, followed by a summary of progress in astronomy between 1850 and 1900, including observations of the solar surface, sunspots, and solar flares. The founding of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory is cited. Observations of the sun made with solar spectroscopy are presented, including those of the sun's temperature. The results of a detailed examination of spectra photographed during the solar eclipse of January 22, 1898 are also discussed. The final chapter examines the magnetic properties of the earth and sun. This monograph will be a useful resource for astronomers, astrophysicists, and those interested in discovering many aspects of the sun.
Preface
Part 1
I. Ideas of the Sun in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
II. The New Astronomy (1850-1900)
Solar Spectroscopy
Observation of the Solar Surface
Sunspots
Solar Flares
The Temperature of the Solar Surface
The Chromosphere, the Prominences and the Corona
Lockyer's Investigations of the Solar Atmosphere
The Structure and Energy Source of the Sun
III. The New Era in Solar Physics
The Nature of the Photosphere
The Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
References
Part 2
1. Solar Observations During 1843
2. Observations on the Sun's Store of Force
3. On the Chemical Analysis of the Solar Atmosphere
4. On a New Proposition In the Theory of Heat
5. Summary of Some of the Results obtained at Cocanada, during the Eclipse last August
6. Notice of an Observation of the Spectrum of a Solar Prominence
7. Results of the Spectro-Analytical Observations at Bothkamp Observatory
8. On a New Method of Observing Contacts at the Sun's Limb, and Other Spectroscopic Observations during the Recent Eclipse
9. Notes on Recent Progress in Solar Physics
10. On the Distribution of the Solar Spots in Latitude since the Beginning of the Year 1854
11. Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun
12. Spectroscopic Notes
13. Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1
14. On a Curious Appearance seen in the Sun
15. The Effective Temperature of the Sun
16. Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun
17. Preliminary Note of Researches on Gaseous Spectra in Respect to the Physical Constitution of the Sun
18. The New Spectrum
19. Spectroscopic Observations
20. Observations on the Solar Eclipse of December 12, 1871
21. The Wave-length of the Green Coronal Line and Other Data Resulting from an Attempt to Determine the Law of Rotation of the Solar Corona
22. Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun
23. The Spectroheliograph
24. Wave-length Determinations and General Results obtained from a Detailed Examination of Spectra photographed at the Solar Eclipse of January 22, 1898
25. On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun; under the Hypothesis of a Gaseous Mass maintaining Its Volume by Its Internal Heat, and depending on the Laws of Gases as Known to Terrestrial Experiment
26. Concerning the Equilibrium of the Solar Atmosphere
27. The Earth and Sun as Magnets
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 21, 2016
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
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