The Energy of Nature

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ISBN: 9780226668055

Preface
Some Notes on Scientific Notation
1. Energy Is Everywhere
2. What Is Energy? Some Preliminary Physics
3. Energy and Its Ultimate Fate
4. Solar Energy and the Upper Atmosphere
5. Energy in the Lower Atmosphere: The Weather Near the Ground
6. The Sun, the Wind, and the Sea
7. The Energy of Ocean Waves
8. The Energy of the Tides
9. How Surface Energy Shapes the Land
10. Chemical Energy
11. Energy Enters the Biosphere
12. Further Travels of Energy in the Biosphere
13. The Warmth of the Earth: Nuclear Reactions Sustain All Life
14. The Earth's Internal Energy
15. How the Earth Sheds Its Warmth
16. Electromagnetic Energy
17. Wave Energy: Sound Waves and Seismic Waves
18. Wave Energy: Electromagnetic Waves
19. How Energy Is Used
Epilogue
Notes
Index