0-345-46061-8 (Hardcover) ISBN 0-345-46865-1 (Paperback)
OCLC
54931711
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22
LC Class
PS3569.T3876 Z88 2004
Preceded by
Zeitgeist
Followed by
Visionary in Residence
The Zenith Angle is a science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling, first published in 2004, about a pioneering expert in computer and network security with a traditional hacker personality named Derek Vandeveer. His life irrevocably changes after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
measuring the zenithangle (or zenith angular distance), theangle between a direction of interest (e.g. a star) and the local zenith - that is, the complement...
TheZenithAngle is a science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling, first published in 2004, about a pioneering expert in computer and network...
and the cost-effective use of solar trackers. The solar zenithangle is thezenithangle of the sun, i.e., theangle between the sun’s rays and the vertical...
the observer is elevated, the horizon zenithangle can be greater than 90°. The maximum visible zenithangle occurs when the ray is tangent to Earth's...
relative direction along the local horizon, whereas the solar zenithangle (or its complementary angle solar elevation) defines the Sun's apparent altitude...
axis, or zenith direction axis, or z-axis); the polar angle θ of the radial line r; and the azimuthal angle φ of the radial line r. The polar angle θ is measured...
={\begin{bmatrix}\rho \\\angle \theta \\\angle \phi \end{bmatrix}}} Where ρ is the magnitude, θ is the azimuth angle, and φ is thezenithangle. Like polar and...
instead of altitude, as they are complementary angles (the sum of the altitude angle and thezenithangle is 90°). "(Az,El) co-ordinate system". W.M. Keck...
celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane (containing Earth's axis and thezenith) and the hour circle (containing...
the sides of a spherical triangle. C is theangle in the vertex opposite the side which has arc length c. Applied to the calculation of solar zenith angle...
geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of theangle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of theangle. Angles formed...
of the cloud and the solar zenithangle. The variation of albedo with zenithangle is most rapid when the sun is near the horizon, and least when the sun...
astronomy, the parallactic angle is theangle between the great circle through a celestial object and thezenith, and the hour circle of the object. It...
is theangle between thezenith direction and the solar direction at the observed pointing, and ψ is theangle between the solar direction and the observed...
determine the total atmospheric delay, is its known dependence of thezenith or elevation angle of the satellite. If z {\displaystyle z} is thezenithangle, the...
2π steradians of a hemisphere decreased by integration over the cosine of thezenithangle. Radiance of a surface, denoted Le,Ω ("e" for "energetic", to...
{\partial ^{2}f}{\partial \varphi ^{2}}},} where φ represents the azimuthal angle and θ thezenithangle or co-latitude. In general curvilinear coordinates (ξ1...
horizontal alignment. The vertical circle measures theangle that the telescope makes against the vertical, known as thezenithangle. The horizontal circle...
used to calculate the solar zenithangle and solar azimuth angle as observed from the surface of the Earth. Start by calculating n, the number of days (positive...
novel TheZenithAngle, which follows the story of a hacker whose life is changed by the September 11 attacks, as "nowpunk". The developers of the computer...
is the airmass given by A M = 1 cos θ {\displaystyle AM={\frac {1}{\cos \theta }}} with θ being thezenithangle (90° minus the altitude) of the sun...