Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics [E-Book] / by Jean Bricmont.
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. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, w...
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Personal Name(s): | Bricmont, Jean, author |
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1st edition 2022. |
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Springer,
2022
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X, 368 pages 28 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783030917944 |
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10.1007/978-3-030-91794-4 |
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Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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- What We Need from Thermodynamics
- What Are Probabilities?
- Dynamical Systems
- Statistical Mechanics 1 : The Nature of Equilibrium
- Statistical Mechanics 2: Irreversibility
- Demystifying Entropy
- Comparison with Quantum Mechanics.