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  title info:
    title: Block by block
    sub title: the historical and theoretical foundations of thermodynamics
  name:
    name part: Hanlon, Robert T.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sanker, Carly
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  name:
    name part: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Part I: The Big Bang (and the synthesis of the elements in stars) -- The Big Bang: science -- The Big Bang: discovery -- Part II: The atom (hard spheres that attract and repel each other) -- The atom: science -- The atom: discovery -- Part III: Energy and the conservation laws -- Energy : science (and some history) -- Motion prior to Galileo -- Galileo and the Law of Fall -- Newton and the Laws of Motion -- The lever -- The rise of mv² -- Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz -- Rudimentary version of the conservation of mechanical energy (1750) -- Heat: the missing piece to the puzzle -- Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity -- Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry -- Rise of the steam engine -- Caloric theory: beginning of its end -- The ideal gas -- The final steps to energy and its conservation -- Julius Robert Mayer -- James Joule -- The 1st Law of Thermodynamics -- Epilogue: the mystery of beta decay -- Part IV: Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics -- Entropy: science (and some history) -- It started with the piston -- Britain and the steam engine -- The Newcomen engine -- James Watt -- Trevithick, Woof, and high-pressure steam -- Sadi Carnot -- Rudolf Clausius -- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) -- The creation of thermodynamics -- Clausius and the road to entropy -- J. Willard Gibbs -- Gibbs' third paper -- Practical applications and Gibbs energy (G) -- Dissemination of Gibbs' work -- The 2nd Law, entropy, and the chemists -- Clausius: the kinetic theory of gases -- Maxwell: the rise of statistical mechanics -- Boltzmann: the probabilistic interpretation of entropy -- Shannon: entropy and information theory.
  note: Robert T. Hanlon, illustration by Robert Hanlon and Carly Sanker.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  classification: QC311 .H36 2020
  classification: 536/.7
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    title info:
      title: Block by block
    name:
      name part: Hanlon, Robert.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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  identifier: 9780192592316
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    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 200331
    record change date: 20210728140312.0
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