Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It...
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It...
Blending the spirit of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue""with the science of Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, The Unfolding of Language is a remarkably original inquiry into the development of that most essential -- and mysterious -- of human creations: language. 'Language is mankind's greatest invention -- except of course, that it was never invented.' So begins this enthralling investigation into the evolution of language. Given that no-one sits down to design languages, how did there come to be so many, and of such elaborate design? If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the...
Blending the spirit of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue""with the science of Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, The Unfolding of Language is a remarkab...
Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own culture and creates a lens through which we see the world.
Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own ...
One of the most spectacular consequences of the description of the superfluid condensate in superfluid He or in superconductors as a single macroscopic quantum state is the quantization of circulation, resulting in quantized vortex lines. This book draws no distinction between superfluid He3 and He4 and superconductors. The reader will find the essential introductory chapters and the most recent theoretical and experimental progress in our understanding of the vortex state in both superconductors and superfluids, from lectures given by leading experts in the field, both...
One of the most spectacular consequences of the description of the superfluid condensate in superfluid He or in superconductors as a single macroscopi...
