Maxwell's demon : why warmth disperses and time passes /

In Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it, most notably James Clerk Maxwell, whose demonic invention has bedeviled generations of physics students with its l...

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Main Author:	Von Baeyer, Hans Christian (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [1998]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Maxwell's demon. Démon de Maxwell. Thermodynamica. Statistische mechanica. Maxwell's demon
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