EINSTEINS FRIDGE EB
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EINSTEINS FRIDGE EB

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EINSTEINS FRIDGE EB

About this book

'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI

'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLD

Einstein's Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.

The laws of thermodynamics govern everything from the behaviour of atoms to that of living cells, from the engines that power our world to the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Not only that, but thermodynamics explains why we must eat and breathe, how the lights come on, and ultimately how the universe will end. The people who decoded its laws came from every branch of the sciences – they were engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, cosmologists and mathematicians.

Their discoveries, set over two hundred years, kick-started the industrial revolution, changed the course of world wars and informed modern understanding of black holes. This book captures the thrill of discovery and the power of revolutionary science to change the world forever.

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Information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780008262839
eBook ISBN
9780008262815
Topic
History
Subtopic
Science & Technology Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1 – A Tour of Britain
  8. Chapter 2 – The Motive Power of Fire
  9. Chapter 3 – The Creator’s Fiat
  10. Chapter 4 – The Valley of the Clyde
  11. Chapter 5 – The Principal Problem of Physics
  12. Chapter 6 – The Flow of Heat and the End of Time
  13. Chapter 7 – Entropy
  14. Chapter 8 – The Motion We Call Heat
  15. Chapter 9 – Collisions
  16. Chapter 10 – Counting the Ways
  17. Chapter 11 – “The Terroristic Nimbus”
  18. Chapter 12 – Boltzmann Brains
  19. Chapter 13 – Quanta
  20. Chapter 14 – Sugar and Pollen
  21. Chapter 15 – Symmetry
  22. Chapter 16 – Information Is Physical
  23. Chapter 17 – Demons
  24. Chapter 18 – The Mathematics of Life
  25. Chapter 19 – Event Horizon
  26. Epilogue
  27. Appendix I – The Carnot Cycle
  28. Appendix II – How Clausius Reconciled the Conservation of Energy with the Ideas of Sadi Carnot
  29. Appendix III – The Four Laws of Thermodynamics
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index
  33. Acknowledgements
  34. About This Book
  35. About the Author
  36. About the Publisher