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Beschreibung
Entropy is an idea that is no less important than energy, but it is not widely understood. We are surrounded by free energy: what we value is energy that's not too polluted with entropy. This book explains how the concepts of energy and entropy were separated from one another over half a century.
Entropy is an idea that is no less important than energy, but it is not widely understood. We are surrounded by free energy: what we value is energy that's not too polluted with entropy. This book explains how the concepts of energy and entropy were separated from one another over half a century.
Über den Autor
James Binney, FRS, is an astrophysicist at Oxford University. He is the co-author of The Physics of Quantum Mechanics (2013) with David Skinner, along with Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1: The age of confusion

  • 2: Thermodynamics arrives

  • 3: Entropy and the energy transition

  • 4: The mechanics of entropy

  • 5: The principle of maximum entropy

  • 6: Image reconstruction

  • 7: Entropy and quantum mechanics

  • 8: Entropy and gravity

  • 9: Wrapping up

  • Notes and further reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Importe, Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
ISBN-13: 9780198901488
ISBN-10: 0198901488
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Binney, James
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 170 x 108 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: James Binney
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,112 kg
Artikel-ID: 134071162

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