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Einstein's Refrigerator Gino Segre

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Zusammenfassung

Using the history and study of temperature as a guide, the author explores where science has taken us and where it is leading us. This is a book about what temperature actually is and how it is measured, and about the people who work on the questions raised.

Einstein's Refrigerator Zusammenfassung

Einstein's Refrigerator: Tales of the Hot and Cold Gino Segre

Using the history and study of temperature as a guide, the author explores where science has taken us and where it is leading us. This is a book about the questions in science that arise from thinking about what temperature means and how it is measured. It is also a book about the people who have worked and are continuing to work on these questions.

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I have a sentimental fondness for how heat emanates from the sun... - Gine Segre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the ruler, the clock and the thermometer. Part 1 37: constant temperature; into the Sahara; into the Antarctic; when things go wrong; shocks from heat. Part 2 Measure for measure: the first sparks; the thermometer's four inventors; the country from Massachusetts; steam power; thermodynamics' three laws; entropy and life. Part 3 Reading the earth: Copernicus's harmony; the minister, the lawyer and the fossil fish expert; cycles of ice; the tundra's bloom; El Nino, old and new; greenhouse effect - the basic science; greenhouse effect - the history; greenhouse effect - the politics. Part 4 Life in the extremes: Barton and Beebe's bathysphere; clambake 1 - hydrothermal vents; some like it hot; snowball earth; the third branch of life; melting the earth; extraterrestrial life; life under two miles of ice. Part 5 Messages from the sun: at the core; cosmic gall; a thermal aside - Gamow, Rutherford and nuclear barriers; a star is born; black holes and little green men; the founding elements - hydrogen and helium; three-degree photons, two-degree neutrinos; the big bang and the big crunch. Part 6 The quantum leap: Faraday's perfect gases; the last liquid; superconductivity; duality, exclusion and uncertainty; the low-temperature world; Einstein's refrigerator; Chandra's journey; into the future.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR000898585
9780713994452
0713994452
Einstein's Refrigerator: Tales of the Hot and Cold Gino Segre
Gino Segre
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Penguin Books Ltd
20030227
320
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