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Innovative, wide-ranging treatment, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, covers negative temperatures and heat capacities, general and special relativistic effects, black hole thermodynamics, gravitational collapse, and more. Problems with worked solutions. 1978 edition.
This text takes the reader on a journey exploring the limits of scientific knowledge, some of the gaps, and some of the discoveries yet to be made. It discusses ideas to question the validity of the models used to define physical reality, and uses examples to ask question such as: what is energy?
Seeking Ultimates: An Intuitive Guide to Physics, Second Edition takes us on a journey that explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, emphasizing the gaps that are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature, and proceeds to energy, the Periodic Table, and then to more advanced ideas. The author examines the nature of ti
Well respected, widely used volume presents problems and full solutions related to a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, statistical physics, statistical mechanics. Suitable for undergraduates and graduate students, self-study, reference. 1989 edition.
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This second edition explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, emphasizing the gaps that are left. The book covers everyday concepts such as temperature, energy, the Periodic Table, and more advanced ideas. The author examines the nature of time and entropy, chaos, quantum theory, cosmology, and some aspects of mathematics, confirming that our understanding is necessarily incomplete. Using references to historical figures in science as well as thought-provoking illustrations, the book encourages you to consider your scientific knowledge in a new light. A comprehensive glossary clearly explains technical terms so that nonscientists can enjoy the text as well.