A Random Walk in Physics [E-Book] : Beyond Black Holes and Time-Travels / by Massimo Cencini, Andrea Puglisi, Davide Vergni, Angelo Vulpiani.
This book offers an informal, easy-to-understand account of topics in modern physics and mathematics. The focus is, in particular, on statistical mechanics, soft matter, probability, chaos, complexity, and models, as well as their interplay. The book features 28 key entries and it is carefully struc...
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Personal Name(s): | Cencini, Massimo, author |
Puglisi, Andrea, author / Vergni, Davide, author / Vulpiani, Angelo, author | |
Edition: |
1st edition 2021. |
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Springer,
2021
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Physical Description: |
X, 224 pages 29 illustrations, 20 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030725310 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-72531-0 |
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- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Atoms, Irreversibility, Probability, Statistical Mechanics, Entropy
- Chapter 3 - Probability, Entropy, Chaos
- Chapter 4 - Chaos, Prediction
- Chapter 5 - Prediction, Turbulence, Models
- Chapter 6 - Models, Richardson
- Chapter 7 - Boltzmann, Statistical Mechanics, Brownian Motion
- Chapter 8 - Boltzmann, Atoms, Statistical Mechanics, Mesoscale Systems
- Chapter 9 - Prediction: Chaos, Poincar e, Richardson, Models, Big data
- Chapter 10 - Statistical Mechanics: Atoms, Boltzmann, Maxwell.