Here is an outstanding text for non-scientists and all interested readers who would like to experience and understand firsthand some of the remarkable physical phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. A sequel to the author's popular Clouds in a Glass of Beer, it contains simple experiments on such topics as the Doppler effect, polarized light, highway mirages, the greenhouse effect, nucleation, humidity, scattering and much more. Requiring no expensive equipment or specialized knowledge, the book is suitable for readers of many ages and is intended to encourage a healthy curiosity about the physical universe.

 

This book is part of a book series called Wiley Science .

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd .

This book has the following chapters: Window Watching; Interference Patterns on Garage Door Windows; Window Watching and Polarized Light; Fame from Window Watching: Malus and Polarized Light; Light Bulb Climatology; Highway Mirages; The Greenhouse Effect Revisited; Boil and Bubble, Toil and Trouble; An Essay on Dew; Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun; Temperature Inversions Have Cold Bottoms; Water Vapor Mysticism; Strange Footprints in Snow; The Doppler Effect; All That's Best of Dark and Bright; Selected Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading; Index.