Agricultural physics

Abstract

In Sect. III.6.B.(iv) we have dealt with some practical aspects of greenhouse choices but also already handled a few physical aspects of such agricultural production systems. The end of the 1950s and early 1960s saw the first books appear on physics in agriculture and plant environment (see Box IV.8). Where in this book basic science has only a role to remind us of the fundamentals dealt with in other books, but is shown only in a purely supportive function, we just illustrate the use of physics in agriculture with the example of phenomena happening in a greenhouse. It very well shows the practical advantages of even a very simplified quantitative physical approach. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.