 |
Physics for Divers: A Manual for the Technically Inclined
By Captain Fred Calhoun, PE
Edited by Cecile Christensen
75 pages, 8-1/2x5-3/8, saddle stitched, tables
No ISBN
Pub Date: 2005
Price $15.00
This book provides an introduction to physics as it applys to underwater swimmers. Within the text mathematics is kept simple, and all computations are fully explained. The imperial system of measurement is used, not the metric system.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Measurement
- Definitions
- Sea Level
- Force
- Weight
- Length
- Work
- Energy
- Time
- Power
- Area
- Pressure
- Absolute Press. vs Atmospheric Press. vs Gauge Press.
- Volume
- Specific Weight
Heat
- Heat Measurement
- Heat Transfer
- Conduction
- Convection
- Some Heat Loss Considerations
Matter
- Air
- Ideal Gas/Ideal Gas Laws
- Boyle's Law (Mariotte's Law)
- Regnault's Law
- The General Gas Law
- Amagat's Law, and the Gibbs-Dalton Rule
- Composition of Dry Air
- Composition of Moist Air
Solutions...Henry's Law...Solubility of Gases
Water
Hydrostatics
Buoyancy—Archimedes' Principle
Sound
- Speed of Sound in Air
- Speed of Sound in Water
- Speed of Sound Near the Surface
Light
- Quality of Light
- Light Underwater, Reflection and Refraction
The Physics of Fins
About the Author & Editor
Captain Fred Calhoun is registered professional engineer. He has been diving since 1953 during which time he has owned a dive shop, and since 1978, captained the dive boat Easy Rider out of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Fred began teaching scuba in 1957 and has been a certified instructor for NEC, YMCA, NAUI and PDIC. He is the recipient of the NAUI Outstanding Achievement Award and was one of the original inductees in the NAUI Hall of Honor. He is also the recipient of the SSI Platinum Pro 5000 award and the J.B Green award.
Together with his wife Chris, Fred has made several award-winning underwater films including The Wall (CINE Prize) about diving the Tongue of the Ocean, and Largo (Knights of Malta, Island of Malta Prize) shot off the coast of the Florida Keys.
Cecile Christensen has been scuba diving since 1966 and is a NAUI instructor. She ia a principal of the Boston Scuba Diving Show and the first mate of the dive charter boat Easy Diver. In addition, she is a film and video editor/producer who has produced Florida Keys and Bahamas dive guides.
|
