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Re: Global oceanic tides
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Aug 27, 20:37 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Aug 27, 20:37 -0700
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 05:39 AM, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > It is not for me to express the group's consensus but if there is still > doubt as to what makes the tides do what they do, we can keep on > plugging away at the topic. There are lots of interesting tidal > phenomena, all with rather simple physical causes (though the details > are never simple, of course). I have enjoyed your explanations. How in the heck do you know all of this? Has your professional work caused you to need to learn all of this, or are you a physicist that loves to study this? I have always wanted to learn more about the tides but have never found the appropriate book. All seem either too simplistic or way over my head. (I'm a math major with a decent amount of physics under my belt.) Do you have any recommendations for further reading for someone with my level of understanding? Dan