Einstein's fridge : how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe / Paul Sen.
"Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics--the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy--is the least known an...
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New York :
Scribner,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A tour of Britain
- The motive power of fire
- The Creator's Fiat
- The valley of the Clyde
- The principal problem of physics
- The flow of heat and the end of time
- Entropy
- The motion we call heat
- Collisions
- Counting the ways
- "The terroristic nimbus"
- Boltzmann brains
- Quanta
- Sugar and pollen
- Symmetry
- Information is physical
- Demons
- The mathematics of life
- Event horizon
- Appendix I: The Carnot cycle
- Appendix II: How Clausius reconciled the conservation of energy with the ideas of Sadi Carnot
- Appendix III: The four laws of thermodynamics.