Gravity, Weight and Their Absence

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Pletser, Vladimir (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Θέματα: Mechanics.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Human physiology.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Classical Mechanics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Human Physiology.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.

The book introduces readers to the concept of weightlessness and microgravity, and presents several examples of microgravity research in fluid physics, the material sciences and human physiology. Further, it explains a range of basic physical concepts (inertia, reference frames, mass and weight, acc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Can inertia make us move? Introduction
• Inertia and inertial reference frames
• Gravitation and weightiness
• Part II: Is weightlessness without gravity? Introduction to Part II Free fall and weightlessness
• Free fall trajectories
• Free fall in the Universe
• Part III: Should one dwell on microgravity? Introduction to Part III Microgravity
• Means to generate microgravity
• Interest of microgravity
• Part IV: Physiological effects of weightlessness Introduction to Part IV General considerations on Life science research
• Physiological effects of weightlessnes
• Bone demineralization.