Overview
- Intended for non-specialists
- Treats the material in a broad intuitive manner
- Covers a wide range of relevant topics
- Focuses on electronic time keeping
- Examines the revolutionary changes made possible by laser cooling and optical pumping
- Discusses the application to global navigation - particular GPS and Loran-
- Unique, in that no other books cover the physics of atomic clocks
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
"This revision is a very complete account of the evolution of frequency and time measurement with emphasis on the development of atomic clocks. … The 20 chapters include a wide range of topics starting with a brief history of time measurements. … Complete index, extensive references, list of suggested readings by topic. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students." (R. L. Stearns, CHOICE, Vol. v4 (3), November, 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Quantum Beat
Book Subtitle: The Physical Principles of Atomic Clocks
Authors: F. G. Major
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2923-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2923-8Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 475
Number of Illustrations: 92 b/w illustrations