Year: 2003 Language: english Author: Keith Belfield Genre: Textbook Publisher: Belfield Software Limited Edition: 1 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 68 Description: Working with Tides has been written by the authors of Tide Plotter, the computer tide prediction program. This book explains what creates the tide raising forces, how tides work and how they affect us around our shores and on the sea. The theory of tides is explained and there are many exercises aimed to put knowledge into practice. Whilst the authors originally put their knowledge into the code of a computer program in order to take out all the hard work of calculating tide information, it is also acknowledged that this does not substitute being able to do it yourself. If you have need to either venture out onto our tidal waters, or, access the tidal reaches of our shores, then the information contained in this book will give some background knowledge to assist you do it in a planned and controlled manner. The enormous power of the tide can never be underestimated, or taken for granted. ‘Time and tide wait for no one,’ we have never been able to stop, or even delay the tides, but we can certainly use our knowledge to harness their great power to best benefit. If King Canute had only known when he tried to command the tide not to come in that it was not the tide itself which was being insubordinate, but these twin travellers of the sky, the Sun and the Moon. It is these two celestial objects which dominate our skies controlling the movement of the tide.
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Working with tides
Language: english
Author: Keith Belfield
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Belfield Software Limited
Edition: 1
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 68
Description: Working with Tides has been written by the authors of Tide Plotter, the computer tide prediction program.
This book explains what creates the tide raising forces, how tides work and how they affect us around our shores and on the sea. The theory of tides is explained and there are many exercises aimed to put knowledge into practice.
Whilst the authors originally put their knowledge into the code of a computer program in order to take out all the hard work of calculating tide information, it is also acknowledged that this does not substitute being able to do it yourself.
If you have need to either venture out onto our tidal waters, or, access the tidal reaches of our shores, then the information contained in this book will give some background knowledge to assist you do it in a planned and controlled manner. The enormous power of the tide can never be underestimated, or taken for granted. ‘Time and tide wait for no one,’ we have never been able to stop, or even delay the tides, but we can certainly use our knowledge to harness their great power to best benefit. If King Canute had only known when he tried to command the tide not to come in that it was not the tide itself which was being insubordinate, but these twin travellers of the sky, the Sun and the Moon. It is these two celestial objects which dominate our skies controlling the movement of the tide.
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