The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Autor Meir Hemmo, Orly R. Shenkeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781107019683
ISBN-10: 1107019680
Pagini: 337
Ilustrații: 105 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1107019680
Pagini: 337
Ilustrații: 105 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Thermodynamics; 3. Classical mechanics; 4. Time; 5. Macrostates; 6. Probability; 7. Entropy; 8. Typicality; 9. Measurement; 10. The past; 11. Gibbs; 12. Erasure; 13. Maxwell's Demon; Appendixes; References; Index.
Recenzii
'The Road to Maxwell's Demon is an exceptionally clear and readable book, intended for readers without physics or philosophy backgrounds. It is also a highly original and important contribution to the foundations of physics. It goes against much of the received wisdom and offers novel solutions to many problems: among them, discussions of time asymmetry in classical mechanics, an empiricist alternative to typicality, a criticism of the role of ergodicity, the notion of a physical observer and the irrelevance of information theory to the foundations of statistical mechanics. Readers interested in the foundations of physics will welcome such a fresh outlook on these topics.' Amit Hagar, Metascience
Descriere
A philosophical perspective to statistical mechanics for graduate students and researchers in the foundations and philosophy of physics.