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Informationen zum Autor C. JULIAN CHEN is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests include scanning tunneling microscopy, mathematical models of the human voice, and utilization of solar energy. Before going into academia, he spent fifteen years in IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he authored Introduction to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and invented a widely used algorithm for Chinese language speech recognition. Klappentext The definitive guide to the science of solar energyYou hold in your hands the first, and only, truly comprehensive guide to the most abundant and most promising source of alternative energy--solar power.In recent years, all major countries in the world have been calling for an energy revolution. The renewable energy industry will drive a vigorous expansion of the global economy and create more "green" jobs. The use of fossil fuels to power our way of living is moving toward an inevitable end, with sources of coal, petroleum, and natural gas being fiercely depleted.Solar energy offers a ubiquitous, inexhaustible, clean, and highly efficient way of meeting the energy needs of the twenty-first century. This book is designed to give the reader a solid footing in the general and basic physics of solar energy, which will be the basis of research and development in new solar engineering technologies in the years to come.As solar technologies like solar cells, solar thermal power generators, solar water heaters, solar photochemistry applications, and solar space heating-cooling systems become more and more prominent, it has become essential that the next generation of energy experts--both in academia and industry--have a one-stop resource for learning the basics behind the science, applications, and technologies afforded by solar energy. This book fills that need by laying the groundwork for the projected rapid expansion of future solar projects. Zusammenfassung This book covers the fundamental physics of the most abundant energy resource available to human society--solar energy. Similar to other technologies, the first step to achieving success is to have a firm understanding of the basic science of solar energy and its use. The subject matter of this text is designed to give the reader this solid footing, which will be the basis of research and the development of new solar engineering technologies. Homework problems and exercises to reinforce the contents along with a solutions manual for instructors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xvList of Figures xixList of Tables xxvChapter 1: Introduction 11.1 Solar Energy 11.2 Go beyond Petroleum 51.3 Other Renewable Energy Resources 81.4 Solar Photovoltaics Primer 221.5 Above Physics 26Problems 40Chapter 2: Nature of Solar Radiation 412.1 Light as Electromagnetic Waves 412.2 Optics of Thin Films 472.3 Blackbody Radiation 522.4 Photoelectric Effect and Concept of Photons 582.5 Einstein's Derivation of Blackbody Formula 63Problems 65Chapter 3: Origin of Solar Energy 673.1 Basic Parameters of the Sun 683.2 Kelvin-Helmholtz Time Scale 703.3 Energy Source of the Sun 72Problems 74Chapter 4: Tracking Sunlight 774.1 Rotation of Earth: Latitude and Longitude 774.2 Celestial Sphere 784.3 Treatment in Solar Time 844.4 Treatment in Standard Time 95Problems 103Chapter 5: Interaction of Sunlight with Earth 1055.1 Interaction of Radiation with Matter 1055.2 Interaction of Sunlight with Atmosphere 1085.3 Penetration of Solar Energy into Earth 114Problems 117Chapter 6: Thermodynamics of Solar Energy 1196.1 Definitions 1196.2 First Law of Thermodynamics 1216.3 Second Law of Thermodynamics 1236.4 Thermodynamic Functions 1276.5 Ideal Gas 1306.6 Ground Source Heat Pump and Air Conditioning 133Problems 142Chapter 7: Quantum Transitions 143...
