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- catalog abstract "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 bedeviled generations of physics students with its light-fingered attempts to flout the laws of thermodynamics. An intelligent, submicroscopic gremlin who could sort atoms as they flew at him, Maxwell's Demon would effectively make an impossible task - forcing heat to flow backward - possible. Explaining why the Demon can't have his day has been an intellectual gauntlet taken up by a century and a half of the world's most brilliant scientists, whose discoveries Professor von Baeyer vividly etches. The centuries-old discipline of thermodynamics informs today's most cutting-edge research in chaos, complexity, and the grand unified theory of everything - physics' Holy Grail. Even more amazing, the study of heat turns out to explain something seemingly unrelated - time, and why it can run in only one direction.".
- catalog contributor b11061789.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. Inside the Barrel of a Cannon: The Nature of Heat -- 2. There's No Free Lunch: The Origin of the First Law -- 3. In Search of Soul: Chasing the First Law -- 4. Currents and Waterfalls: Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat -- 5. Paris in the Steam: The Road to the Second Law -- 6. It's All Downhill: The Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 7. Briefer Is Better: The Invention of Entropy -- 8. Rivers of Gold: A Parable -- 9. A Game of Billiards: The Story of Temperature -- 10. The Devil-On-Two-Sticks: Chance and the Loss of Certainty -- 11. Heads and Tails: The Laws of Probability -- 12. The Mechanical Demon -- 13. Boltzmann's Universe: The Nature of Entropy -- 14. Apocalypse Now: The Dissipation of Energy.".
- catalog description "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 bedeviled generations of physics students with its light-fingered attempts to flout the laws of thermodynamics. An intelligent, submicroscopic gremlin who could sort atoms as they flew at him, Maxwell's Demon would effectively make an impossible task - forcing heat to flow backward - possible. Explaining why the Demon can't have his day has been an intellectual gauntlet taken up by a century and a half of the world's most brilliant scientists, whose discoveries Professor von Baeyer vividly etches.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.".
- catalog description "The centuries-old discipline of thermodynamics informs today's most cutting-edge research in chaos, complexity, and the grand unified theory of everything - physics' Holy Grail. Even more amazing, the study of heat turns out to explain something seemingly unrelated - time, and why it can run in only one direction.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 207 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Maxwell's demon.".
- catalog identifier "0679433422 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maxwell's demon.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Maxwell's demon.".
- catalog subject "536/.71 21".
- catalog subject "Maxwell's demon.".
- catalog subject "QC318.M35 V66 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Inside the Barrel of a Cannon: The Nature of Heat -- 2. There's No Free Lunch: The Origin of the First Law -- 3. In Search of Soul: Chasing the First Law -- 4. Currents and Waterfalls: Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat -- 5. Paris in the Steam: The Road to the Second Law -- 6. It's All Downhill: The Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 7. Briefer Is Better: The Invention of Entropy -- 8. Rivers of Gold: A Parable -- 9. A Game of Billiards: The Story of Temperature -- 10. The Devil-On-Two-Sticks: Chance and the Loss of Certainty -- 11. Heads and Tails: The Laws of Probability -- 12. The Mechanical Demon -- 13. Boltzmann's Universe: The Nature of Entropy -- 14. Apocalypse Now: The Dissipation of Energy.".
- catalog title "Maxwell's demon : why warmth disperses and time passes / Hans Christian von Baeyer.".
- catalog type "text".