{"id":110080,"date":"2015-08-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=74d57dfbfda086976d74475f011572a3"},"modified":"2015-08-04T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","slug":"the-thickness-of-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=110080","title":{"rendered":"The thickness of glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basic formulae and results of glacier physics appearing in glaciology textbooks can be derived from<br \/>\nfirst principles introduced in algebra-based first year physics courses. We discuss the maximum<br \/>\nthickness of alpine glaciers and ice sheets and the relation between maximum thickness and length of<br \/>\nan ice sheet. Knowledge of ordinary differential equations allows one to derive also the local ice<br \/>\nthickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic formulae and results of glacier physics appearing in glaciology textbooks can be derived from<br \/>\nfirst principles introduced in algebra-based first year physics courses. We discuss the maximum<br \/>\nthickness of alpine glaciers and ice sheets and the re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}