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The road to Maxwell's demon: conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics

Time asymmetric phenomena are successfully predicted by statistical mechanics. Yet the foundations of this theory are surprisingly shaky. Its explanation for the ease of mixing milk with coffee is incomplete, and even implies that un-mixing them should be just as easy. In this book the authors devel...

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Autores principales: Hemmo, Meir, Shenker, Orly R
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Cambridge Univ. Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1708353