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Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics Thermodynamics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-14440-9
9786613144409 981-4299-77-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; Self-Testing Kit; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Brief History of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; CHAPTER 2 All You Need to Know but Never Dared to Admit that You Already Know; CHAPTER 3 Discover the Uniform Spatial Distribution; CHAPTER 4 Discover the Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 5 Discover the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 6 Entropy and the Second Law in theWorld of Marbles; CHAPTER 7 Entropy and the Second Law in the Real World; CHAPTER 8 Notes; Epilogue; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464550703321 |
Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics Thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-283-14440-9
9786613144409 981-4299-77-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; Self-Testing Kit; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Brief History of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; CHAPTER 2 All You Need to Know but Never Dared to Admit that You Already Know; CHAPTER 3 Discover the Uniform Spatial Distribution; CHAPTER 4 Discover the Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 5 Discover the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 6 Entropy and the Second Law in theWorld of Marbles; CHAPTER 7 Entropy and the Second Law in the Real World; CHAPTER 8 Notes; Epilogue; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789069903321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Discover entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a playful way of discovering a law of nature / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics Thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-283-14440-9
9786613144409 981-4299-77-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; Self-Testing Kit; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Brief History of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; CHAPTER 2 All You Need to Know but Never Dared to Admit that You Already Know; CHAPTER 3 Discover the Uniform Spatial Distribution; CHAPTER 4 Discover the Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 5 Discover the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution; CHAPTER 6 Entropy and the Second Law in theWorld of Marbles; CHAPTER 7 Entropy and the Second Law in the Real World; CHAPTER 8 Notes; Epilogue; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827252503321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Edizione | [Expanded ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-96829-3
9786611968298 981-283-226-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Programs for Simulating Some of the Games in the Book; Program 1: Binary dice; Program 2: Regular dice; Program 3: Card deck; Program 4: Simulation of expansion of ideal gas; Program 5: Simulation of mixing two ideal gases; Program 6: Find the hidden coin; Program 7: Generating the normal distribution; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 1.1. The Non-Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 1.2. The Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest
2.1. The Classical Definition2.2. The Relative Frequency Definition; 2.3. Independent Events and Conditional Probability; 2.4. Three Caveats; 2.4.1. Conditional probability and subjective probability; 2.4.2. Conditional probability and cause and effect; 2.4.3. Conditional probability and joint probability; 2.5. A Teaspoon of Information Theory; 2.6. A Tip of a Teaspoon of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; 2.7. A Matter of Lottery; 2.8. A Matter of Order-Disorder; 2.9. A Challenging Problem; 2.10. Answers to the Problems; 2.10.1. Answers to the roulette problems 2.10.2. Answer to "a matter of lottery"2.10.3. Answer to "a matter of order-disorder"; 2.10.4. Answer to "a challenging problem"; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 3.1. One Die; 3.2. Two Dice; 3.3. Three Dice; 3.4. Four Dice and More; 4 Let's Play with Simpli.ed Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 4.1. Two Dice; N = 2; 4.2. Four Dice; N = 4; 4.3. Ten Dice; N = 10; 4.4. Hundred Dice; N = 100; 4.5. Thousand Dice; N = 1000; 4.6. Ten Thousand Dice; N = 104 and Beyond; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 5.1. See it with your Visual Sense 5.2. Smell it with your Olfactory Sense5.3. Taste it with your Gustatory Sense; 5.4. Hear it with your Auditory Sense; 5.5. Feel it with your Touch (Tactile) Sense; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 7.1. The Correspondence with the Expansion Process; 7.2. The Correspondence with the Deassimilation Process; 7.3. Summary of the Evolution of the System towards the Equilibrium State; 7.4. Mixing of Three Components; 7.5. Heat Transfer from a Hot to a Cold Gas; 7.6. Test Your Understanding of the Second Law 8 Re.ections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics8.1. What is the Source of the Mystery?; 8.2. The Association of Entropy with "Disorder"; 8.3. The Association of Entropy with Missing Information; 8.4. Is the Second Law Intimately Associated with the Arrow of Time?; 8.5. Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics a Law of Physics?; 8.6. Can We Do Away with the Second Law?; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453188803321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Edizione | [Expanded ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-281-96829-3
9786611968298 981-283-226-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Programs for Simulating Some of the Games in the Book; Program 1: Binary dice; Program 2: Regular dice; Program 3: Card deck; Program 4: Simulation of expansion of ideal gas; Program 5: Simulation of mixing two ideal gases; Program 6: Find the hidden coin; Program 7: Generating the normal distribution; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 1.1. The Non-Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 1.2. The Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest
2.1. The Classical Definition2.2. The Relative Frequency Definition; 2.3. Independent Events and Conditional Probability; 2.4. Three Caveats; 2.4.1. Conditional probability and subjective probability; 2.4.2. Conditional probability and cause and effect; 2.4.3. Conditional probability and joint probability; 2.5. A Teaspoon of Information Theory; 2.6. A Tip of a Teaspoon of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; 2.7. A Matter of Lottery; 2.8. A Matter of Order-Disorder; 2.9. A Challenging Problem; 2.10. Answers to the Problems; 2.10.1. Answers to the roulette problems 2.10.2. Answer to "a matter of lottery"2.10.3. Answer to "a matter of order-disorder"; 2.10.4. Answer to "a challenging problem"; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 3.1. One Die; 3.2. Two Dice; 3.3. Three Dice; 3.4. Four Dice and More; 4 Let's Play with Simpli.ed Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 4.1. Two Dice; N = 2; 4.2. Four Dice; N = 4; 4.3. Ten Dice; N = 10; 4.4. Hundred Dice; N = 100; 4.5. Thousand Dice; N = 1000; 4.6. Ten Thousand Dice; N = 104 and Beyond; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 5.1. See it with your Visual Sense 5.2. Smell it with your Olfactory Sense5.3. Taste it with your Gustatory Sense; 5.4. Hear it with your Auditory Sense; 5.5. Feel it with your Touch (Tactile) Sense; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 7.1. The Correspondence with the Expansion Process; 7.2. The Correspondence with the Deassimilation Process; 7.3. Summary of the Evolution of the System towards the Equilibrium State; 7.4. Mixing of Three Components; 7.5. Heat Transfer from a Hot to a Cold Gas; 7.6. Test Your Understanding of the Second Law 8 Re.ections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics8.1. What is the Source of the Mystery?; 8.2. The Association of Entropy with "Disorder"; 8.3. The Association of Entropy with Missing Information; 8.4. Is the Second Law Intimately Associated with the Arrow of Time?; 8.5. Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics a Law of Physics?; 8.6. Can We Do Away with the Second Law?; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782225503321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Edizione | [Expanded ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-281-96829-3
9786611968298 981-283-226-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Programs for Simulating Some of the Games in the Book; Program 1: Binary dice; Program 2: Regular dice; Program 3: Card deck; Program 4: Simulation of expansion of ideal gas; Program 5: Simulation of mixing two ideal gases; Program 6: Find the hidden coin; Program 7: Generating the normal distribution; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 1.1. The Non-Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 1.2. The Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest
2.1. The Classical Definition2.2. The Relative Frequency Definition; 2.3. Independent Events and Conditional Probability; 2.4. Three Caveats; 2.4.1. Conditional probability and subjective probability; 2.4.2. Conditional probability and cause and effect; 2.4.3. Conditional probability and joint probability; 2.5. A Teaspoon of Information Theory; 2.6. A Tip of a Teaspoon of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; 2.7. A Matter of Lottery; 2.8. A Matter of Order-Disorder; 2.9. A Challenging Problem; 2.10. Answers to the Problems; 2.10.1. Answers to the roulette problems 2.10.2. Answer to "a matter of lottery"2.10.3. Answer to "a matter of order-disorder"; 2.10.4. Answer to "a challenging problem"; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 3.1. One Die; 3.2. Two Dice; 3.3. Three Dice; 3.4. Four Dice and More; 4 Let's Play with Simpli.ed Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 4.1. Two Dice; N = 2; 4.2. Four Dice; N = 4; 4.3. Ten Dice; N = 10; 4.4. Hundred Dice; N = 100; 4.5. Thousand Dice; N = 1000; 4.6. Ten Thousand Dice; N = 104 and Beyond; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 5.1. See it with your Visual Sense 5.2. Smell it with your Olfactory Sense5.3. Taste it with your Gustatory Sense; 5.4. Hear it with your Auditory Sense; 5.5. Feel it with your Touch (Tactile) Sense; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 7.1. The Correspondence with the Expansion Process; 7.2. The Correspondence with the Deassimilation Process; 7.3. Summary of the Evolution of the System towards the Equilibrium State; 7.4. Mixing of Three Components; 7.5. Heat Transfer from a Hot to a Cold Gas; 7.6. Test Your Understanding of the Second Law 8 Re.ections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics8.1. What is the Source of the Mystery?; 8.2. The Association of Entropy with "Disorder"; 8.3. The Association of Entropy with Missing Information; 8.4. Is the Second Law Intimately Associated with the Arrow of Time?; 8.5. Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics a Law of Physics?; 8.6. Can We Do Away with the Second Law?; References and Suggested Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821488503321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-12113-4
9786611121136 981-277-069-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 4 Let's Play with Simplified Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 8 Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics; References and Suggested Reading |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450707003321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-281-12113-4
9786611121136 981-277-069-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 4 Let's Play with Simplified Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 8 Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics; References and Suggested Reading |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784038803321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim Arieh <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-281-12113-4
9786611121136 981-277-069-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 4 Let's Play with Simplified Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 8 Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics; References and Suggested Reading |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821714703321 |
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Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entropy demystified : the second law reduced to plain common sense / Arieh Ben-Naim
| Entropy demystified : the second law reduced to plain common sense / Arieh Ben-Naim |
| Autore | Ben-Naim, Arieh |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | xxv, 221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina | 536/.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entropy
Second law of thermodynamics |
| ISBN | 9789812700520 (hardcover) |
| Classificazione | LC QC318.E57 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003803249707536 |
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Ben-Naim, Arieh
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| Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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