Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-12
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUndergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Antal sidor368
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030917937

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Jean Bricmont (born in 1952) is a theoretical physicist, and a retired professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on statistical and mathematical physics. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticize relativism in the philosophy of science. He also published Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Sense and Nonsense with Springer.