10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPICAL MONTH»
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tropical month in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and ...
TROPICAL MONTH The time required for the Moon to go from the summer
solstitial point, all the way around the zodiac, and back to the same solstitial point
is called the tropical month. If the equinoxes and solstices were fixed with respect
to ...
Geminus, James Evans, J. L. Berggren,
2006
2
Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity
The second method results from the relation existing among the tropical solar
year (Y = 365.2422 days), the tropical month ( T = 27.32 days), and the synodic
month (S = 29.53 days), viz.: 13.36827 T — 12.36827 S = J. By analogy, a new ...
Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming,
1902
3
Principles of Tidal Sedimentology
The period of the variation in declination is called the tropical month – the interval
of time it takes the Moon to complete one full orbit from its maximum northern
declination to its maximum southern declination and then return. The effect of the
...
Richard A. Davis (Jr.), Richard A. Davis, Jr., Robert W. Dalrymple,
2011
4
Elements of Astronomy: Accompanied with Numerous ...
The tropical month is the revolution of the Moon with respect to the movable
equinox. The sidereal month is the interval between two successive conjunctions
of the Moon with the same fired star. The anomalistic month, is the time in which
the ...
5
The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey
The tropical month, however, is measured by the position of the Moon relative to
the equinox. A tropical month, with 29.530 40 mean solar days, is just 0.000 19
such days, or about 16.4 second, shorter than a synodic month. Then there is the
...
Herbert Arthur Klein,
2012
6
The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition
The mean tropical month is necessarily slightly less than the sidereal. The latter
is, with great exactness, 27*32166 days, the tropical month is 27-32156 days, or
about 6£ seconds shorter. Now let us in the first instance consider this motion as
...
Richard Anthony Proctor,
1878
7
International Symposium on History of Machines and ...
This implies that we must, strictly speaking, distinguish the tropical year from the
sidereal year and the tropical month from the sidereal month. Below we will not
do this because the precession of the equinoxes is extremely slow (one rotation
in ...
Hong-Sen Yan, Marco Ceccarelli,
2009
8
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
... tropical monsoon climate Meteorology, the type of tropical rainy climate that is
warm and wet enough to produce tropical rain forest vegetation but is
distinguished from the rain forest climate by a dry winter season. tropical month
Astronomy, ...
Christopher G. Morris,
1992
9
Tropical Cyclones: Climatology and Impacts in the South Pacific
Percentage of recorded Percentage of all tropical Month tropical cyclones 1789–
1923a cyclones 1970–2006b September 0.8 0 October 1.6 0.9 November 3.2 4.0
December 12.4 11.2 January 27.6 19.7 February 19.2 26.7 March 25.6 22.1 ...
10
The American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation
Tropical maritime air is characterized by high surface temperature and high
specific humidity. tropical month. The average period of the revolution of the
moon about the earth with respect to the vernal equinox, a period of 27 days, 7
hours, ...
Nathaniel Bowditch, National Imagery and Mapping Agency,
2002