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One might ask similar questions about probabilities: Do they express subjective judgments by us, humans, or do they reflect facts about the world, i.e. frequencies. And what notion of probability is used in the natural sciences, in particular statistical mechanics?
This book addresses all of these questions in the clear and pedagogical style for which the author is known. Although valuable as accompaniment to an undergraduate course on statistical mechanics or thermodynamics, it is not a standard course book. Instead it addresses both the essentials and the many subtle questions that are usually brushed under the carpet in such courses. As one of the most lucid accounts of the above questions, it provides enlightening reading for all those seeking answers, including students, lecturers, researchers and philosophers of science.
One might ask similar questions about probabilities: Do they express subjective judgments by us, humans, or do they reflect facts about the world, i.e. frequencies. And what notion of probability is used in the natural sciences, in particular statistical mechanics?
This book addresses all of these questions in the clear and pedagogical style for which the author is known. Although valuable as accompaniment to an undergraduate course on statistical mechanics or thermodynamics, it is not a standard course book. Instead it addresses both the essentials and the many subtle questions that are usually brushed under the carpet in such courses. As one of the most lucid accounts of the above questions, it provides enlightening reading for all those seeking answers, including students, lecturers, researchers and philosophers of science.
Jean Bricmont (born in 1952) is a theoretical physicist, and a retired professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on statistical and mathematical physics. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticize relativism in the philosophy of science. He also published Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Sense and Nonsense with Springer.
Brings clarity to the subtle questions raised by the Second Law of thermodynamics and time's arrow
Provides insights into the relationship between probability and the natural sciences
Explores the various meanings of Entropy
What We Need from Thermodynamics.- What Are Probabilities?.- Dynamical Systems.- Statistical Mechanics 1 : The Nature of Equilibrium.- Statistical Mechanics 2: Irreversibility.- Demystifying Entropy.- Comparison with Quantum Mechanics.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Theoretische Physik |
| Genre: | Physik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 380 |
| Reihe: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Inhalt: |
x
368 S. 16 s/w Illustr. 12 farbige Illustr. 368 p. 28 illus. 12 illus. in color. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783030917937 |
| ISBN-10: | 3030917932 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Bricmont, Jean |
| Auflage: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Maße: | 235 x 155 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jean Bricmont |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.02.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,575 kg |
Jean Bricmont (born in 1952) is a theoretical physicist, and a retired professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on statistical and mathematical physics. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticize relativism in the philosophy of science. He also published Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Sense and Nonsense with Springer.
Brings clarity to the subtle questions raised by the Second Law of thermodynamics and time's arrow
Provides insights into the relationship between probability and the natural sciences
Explores the various meanings of Entropy
What We Need from Thermodynamics.- What Are Probabilities?.- Dynamical Systems.- Statistical Mechanics 1 : The Nature of Equilibrium.- Statistical Mechanics 2: Irreversibility.- Demystifying Entropy.- Comparison with Quantum Mechanics.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Theoretische Physik |
| Genre: | Physik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 380 |
| Reihe: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Inhalt: |
x
368 S. 16 s/w Illustr. 12 farbige Illustr. 368 p. 28 illus. 12 illus. in color. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783030917937 |
| ISBN-10: | 3030917932 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Bricmont, Jean |
| Auflage: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Maße: | 235 x 155 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jean Bricmont |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.02.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,575 kg |
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