Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes - Hardcover

Von Baeyer, Hans Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679433422 ISBN 13: 9780679433422

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

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Shows how the physics of heat can explain the behavior of energy, time, and the physical world

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Hans Christian von Baeyer is professor of physics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Hans Christian von Baeyer is professor of physics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he  lives with his wife and two daughters. He is the recipient of the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Magazine Award. His previous books include The Fermi Solution: Essays on Science; Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld; and Rainbows, Snowflakes, and Quarks: Physics and the World Around Us.

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t your office and unpack your breakfast from the local deli. The piping-hot coffee and chilly orange juice you purchased just minutes ago are now both disappointingly lukewarm. Why can't the coffee "steal" heat from the juice to stay hot? Why does even the most state-of-the-art car operate at a mere 30 percent efficiency--and why can't Detroit ever better the odds, no matter what space age materials we invent? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles.<br> If you want to know what's happening in the physical world, you've got to follow the heat. In Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it, most notably James Clerk Maxwell, whose demonic invention has bede

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679433422
• ISBN 13: 9780679433422
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207
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