Entropy and the Second Law

A college-level sourcebook and textbook on several problems in philosophy, physics, and metaphysics, with tentative solutions using the new methodo...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well...

Reducere. Why do we want more and more money regardless of how much we already have? Why do we hate to be manipulated and to lose? Why do twenty percent of t...

Indisputably, this is a modern classic of science. Based on a course of lectures delivered by the author at Columbia University, the text is elemen...

This textbook introduces thermodynamics with a modern approach, starting from four fundamental physical facts (the atomic nature of matter, the ind...

Reducere. This textbook covers basic principles of equilibrium behavior for systems of interest to chemical engineering, including elementary microscopic con...

Reducere. This concise, elementary treatment illustrates the ways in which an atomic-molecular perspective yields new insights and powers operative in the re...

The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal--...

Reducere. In his book Cosmogenesis, David Layzer showed that the universe had not begun, as many physical scientists believe, with a large amount of informat...