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