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Jozef Stefan : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau
| Jozef Stefan : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau |
| Autore | Crepeau John C |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina |
509.021
509/.021 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CrepeauJohn C |
| Soggetto topico | Physicists - Austria |
| ISBN |
9781608054770
1608054772 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 01 Cover. pdf; 02 Title; 03 REVISED Online; 04 Dedication; 05 Contents; 06 Foreword; 07 Preface; 08 List of Contributors; 09 Chapter 01; 10 Chapter 02; 11 Chapter 03; 12 Chapter 04; 13 Chapter 05; 14 Chapter 06; 15 Chapter 07; 16 Chapter 08; 17 Chapter 09; 18 Chapter 10; 19 Chapter 11; 20 Appendix 1; 21 Appendix 2; 22 Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910968497603321 |
Crepeau John C
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| [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jozef Stefan [[electronic resource] ] : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau
| Jozef Stefan [[electronic resource] ] : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina |
509.021
509/.021 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CrepeauJohn C |
| Soggetto topico | Physicists - Austria |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-60805-477-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 01 Cover. pdf; 02 Title; 03 REVISED Online; 04 Dedication; 05 Contents; 06 Foreword; 07 Preface; 08 List of Contributors; 09 Chapter 01; 10 Chapter 02; 11 Chapter 03; 12 Chapter 04; 13 Chapter 05; 14 Chapter 06; 15 Chapter 07; 16 Chapter 08; 17 Chapter 09; 18 Chapter 10; 19 Chapter 11; 20 Appendix 1; 21 Appendix 2; 22 Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453043403321 |
| [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jozef Stefan [[electronic resource] ] : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau
| Jozef Stefan [[electronic resource] ] : his scientific legacy on the 175th anniversary of his birth / / editor John C. Crepeau |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina |
509.021
509/.021 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CrepeauJohn C |
| Soggetto topico | Physicists - Austria |
| ISBN | 1-60805-477-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 01 Cover. pdf; 02 Title; 03 REVISED Online; 04 Dedication; 05 Contents; 06 Foreword; 07 Preface; 08 List of Contributors; 09 Chapter 01; 10 Chapter 02; 11 Chapter 03; 12 Chapter 04; 13 Chapter 05; 14 Chapter 06; 15 Chapter 07; 16 Chapter 08; 17 Chapter 09; 18 Chapter 10; 19 Chapter 11; 20 Appendix 1; 21 Appendix 2; 22 Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779624703321 |
| [Sharjah, U.A.E.], : Bentham Science Publishers, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ludwig Boltzmann [[electronic resource] ] : the man who trusted atoms / / Carlo Cercignani
| Ludwig Boltzmann [[electronic resource] ] : the man who trusted atoms / / Carlo Cercignani |
| Autore | Cercignani Carlo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006, c1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530.092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Atomic structure - History
Physicists - Austria |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-850154-4
0-19-152472-7 1-4294-6929-3 1-280-84567-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Figure acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A short biography of Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.1 Youth and happy years; 1.2 The crisis; 1.3 Restlessness; 1.4 Scientific debates and travels; 1.5 The tragic fate of a great scientist; 1.6 Boltzmann as a teacher; 1.7 Boltzmann and inventions; 1.8 Ludwig Boltzmann and his times; 1.9 A poem by Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.10 Boltzmann's personality; 2 Physics before Boltzmann; 2.1 From Galileo and Newton to the early atomic theories; 2.2 The first connections between heat and mechanical energy; 2.3 The springtime of thermodynamics
2.4 Electricity and magnetism3 Kinetic theory before Boltzmann; 3.1 Early kinetic theories; 3.2 The beginnings of modern kinetic theory and the problem of justifying the Second Law; 4 The Boltzmann equation; 4.1 Irreversibility and kinetic theory; 4.2 The great paper of 1872; 4.3 A critique of Boltzmann's approach; 5 Time irreversibility and H-theorem; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Loschmidt's paradox; 5.3 Poincaré's recurrence and Zermelo's paradox; 5.4 The physical and mathematical resolution of the paradoxes; 5.5 Time's arrow and the expanding universe 5.6 Is irreversibility objective or subjective?5.7 Concluding remarks; 6 Boltzmann's relation and the statistical interpretation of entropy; 6.1 The probabilistic interpretation of thermodynamics; 6.2 Explicit use of probability for a gas with discrete energies; 6.3 Energy is continuous; 6.4 The so-called H-curve; 7 Boltzmann, Gibbs, and equilibrium statistical mechanics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A great American scientist of the nineteenth century: J.W. Gibbs; 7.3 Why is statistical mechanics usually attributed to Gibbs and not to Boltzmann?; 7.4 Gibbs's treatise 7.5 French scientists on statistical mechanics7.6 The problem of trend to equilibrium and ergodic theory; 7.7 Planck and statistical mechanics; 8 The problem of polyatomic molecules; 8.1 The problem of specific heats; 8.2 The H-theorem for polyatomic molecules; 8.3 Specific heats again; 8.4 Boltzmann's ideas on specific heats, and twentieth century contributions; 9 Boltzmann's contributions to other branches of physics; 9.1 Boltzmann's testing of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism; 9.2 Boltzmann lays the foundations of hereditary mechanics; 9.3 Back to electromagnetism 9.4 A true pearl of theoretical physics9.5 Mathematics and foundations of mechanics; 10 Boltzmann as a philosopher; 10.1 A realist, but not a naïve one; 10.2 Laws of thought and scientific concepts; 10.3 Ethics, aesthetics, religion; 10.4 Philosophy of science; 10.5 Boltzmann's views on scientific revolutions; 10.6 Boltzmann's education in philosophy; 10.7 Did Boltzmann abandon realism?; 11 Boltzmann and his contemporaries; 11.1 The contacts between Boltzmann and his colleagues; 11.2 Maxwell; 11.3 Lorentz; 11.4 Boltzmann and the energetists; 11.5 Planck; 11.6 Students and younger colleagues 12 The influence of Boltzmann's ideas on the science and technology of the twentieth century |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465143103321 |
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Cercignani Carlo
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006, c1998 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ludwig Boltzmann [[electronic resource] ] : the man who trusted atoms / / Carlo Cercignani
| Ludwig Boltzmann [[electronic resource] ] : the man who trusted atoms / / Carlo Cercignani |
| Autore | Cercignani Carlo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006, c1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530.092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Atomic structure - History
Physicists - Austria |
| ISBN |
0-19-160698-7
0-19-850154-4 1-4294-6929-3 1-280-84567-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Figure acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A short biography of Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.1 Youth and happy years; 1.2 The crisis; 1.3 Restlessness; 1.4 Scientific debates and travels; 1.5 The tragic fate of a great scientist; 1.6 Boltzmann as a teacher; 1.7 Boltzmann and inventions; 1.8 Ludwig Boltzmann and his times; 1.9 A poem by Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.10 Boltzmann's personality; 2 Physics before Boltzmann; 2.1 From Galileo and Newton to the early atomic theories; 2.2 The first connections between heat and mechanical energy; 2.3 The springtime of thermodynamics
2.4 Electricity and magnetism3 Kinetic theory before Boltzmann; 3.1 Early kinetic theories; 3.2 The beginnings of modern kinetic theory and the problem of justifying the Second Law; 4 The Boltzmann equation; 4.1 Irreversibility and kinetic theory; 4.2 The great paper of 1872; 4.3 A critique of Boltzmann's approach; 5 Time irreversibility and H-theorem; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Loschmidt's paradox; 5.3 Poincaré's recurrence and Zermelo's paradox; 5.4 The physical and mathematical resolution of the paradoxes; 5.5 Time's arrow and the expanding universe 5.6 Is irreversibility objective or subjective?5.7 Concluding remarks; 6 Boltzmann's relation and the statistical interpretation of entropy; 6.1 The probabilistic interpretation of thermodynamics; 6.2 Explicit use of probability for a gas with discrete energies; 6.3 Energy is continuous; 6.4 The so-called H-curve; 7 Boltzmann, Gibbs, and equilibrium statistical mechanics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A great American scientist of the nineteenth century: J.W. Gibbs; 7.3 Why is statistical mechanics usually attributed to Gibbs and not to Boltzmann?; 7.4 Gibbs's treatise 7.5 French scientists on statistical mechanics7.6 The problem of trend to equilibrium and ergodic theory; 7.7 Planck and statistical mechanics; 8 The problem of polyatomic molecules; 8.1 The problem of specific heats; 8.2 The H-theorem for polyatomic molecules; 8.3 Specific heats again; 8.4 Boltzmann's ideas on specific heats, and twentieth century contributions; 9 Boltzmann's contributions to other branches of physics; 9.1 Boltzmann's testing of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism; 9.2 Boltzmann lays the foundations of hereditary mechanics; 9.3 Back to electromagnetism 9.4 A true pearl of theoretical physics9.5 Mathematics and foundations of mechanics; 10 Boltzmann as a philosopher; 10.1 A realist, but not a naïve one; 10.2 Laws of thought and scientific concepts; 10.3 Ethics, aesthetics, religion; 10.4 Philosophy of science; 10.5 Boltzmann's views on scientific revolutions; 10.6 Boltzmann's education in philosophy; 10.7 Did Boltzmann abandon realism?; 11 Boltzmann and his contemporaries; 11.1 The contacts between Boltzmann and his colleagues; 11.2 Maxwell; 11.3 Lorentz; 11.4 Boltzmann and the energetists; 11.5 Planck; 11.6 Students and younger colleagues 12 The influence of Boltzmann's ideas on the science and technology of the twentieth century |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792246103321 |
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Cercignani Carlo
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006, c1998 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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