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Many controversial environmental issues revolve around complex scientific arguments, which can be better understood with a grasp of the key scientific concepts. Environmental Physics provides an introduction to the physical principles that underlie environmental issues and shows how they contribute to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science as a whole. * The forces of nature - Newtonian mechanics, gravity, rotational dynamics and angular momentum, waves and electro-magnetism * Energy - efficiency and entropy, mechanical work, electrical energy, renewable energy, energy use in transport and energy in the biosphere * Heat and Radiation- transmission of heat, engines and thermal power production, radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum and remote sensing * Solids, Liquids and Gases - States of matter, properties of solids, seismic waves, pressure, fluids and fluid flow, hydrology and hydrogeology * The Earths climate and climate change - microclimates, the ozone layer, the 'Greenhouse effect', sea level change and climate modelling Sound and noise - sound waves, noise pollution and control * Radioactivity and nuclear physics - radioactive decay, nuclear fission react

Who reads Environmental Physics (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)?

Author

Smith, Clare

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138130203

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Engineering, Physics

Updated

2026-03-24