A History of Thermodynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Thermodynamics write by Ingo Müller. This book was released on 2007-07-16. A History of Thermodynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an easy to read, all-embracing history of thermodynamics. It describes the long development of thermodynamics, from the misunderstood and misinterpreted to the conceptually simple and extremely useful theory that we know today. Coverage identifies not only the famous physicists who developed the field, but also engineers and scientists from other disciplines who helped in the development and spread of thermodynamics as well.
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 write by C. Truesdell. This book was released on 2013-03-07. The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Janus Point
The Janus Point - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Janus Point write by Julian Barbour. This book was released on 2020-12-01. The Janus Point available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the destiny of the universe. Time is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics allow for it to flow forward and backward, does it only go forward? Physicists have long appealed to the second law of thermodynamics, held to predict the increase of disorder in the universe, to explain this. In The Janus Point, physicist Julian Barbour argues that the second law has been misapplied and that the growth of order determines how we experience time. In his view, the big bang becomes the "Janus point," a moment of minimal order from which time could flow, and order increase, in two directions. The Janus Point has remarkable implications: while most physicists predict that the universe will become mired in disorder, Barbour sees the possibility that order -- the stuff of life -- can grow without bound. A major new work of physics, The Janus Point will transform our understanding of the nature of existence.
Every Life Is on Fire
Every Life Is on Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Every Life Is on Fire write by Jeremy England. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Every Life Is on Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time, deep within the laws of thermodynamics. England explains how, counterintuitively, the very same forces that tend to tear things apart assembled the first living systems. But how life began isn't just a scientific question. We ask it because we want to know what it really means to be alive. So England, an ordained rabbi, uses his theory to examine how, if at all, science helps us find purpose in a vast and mysterious universe. In the tradition of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Every Life Is on Fire is a profound testament to how something can come from nothing.
Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time's Arrow write by Michael C. Mackey. This book was released on 2011-11-30. Time's Arrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploration of Second Law of Thermodynamics details fundamental dynamic properties behind the construction of statistical mechanics. Geared toward physicists and applied mathematicians; suitable for advanced undergraduate, graduate courses. 1992 edition.
