An edition of Einstein's refrigerator
(2003)
Einstein's refrigerator
tales of the hot and cold
by Gino Segrè
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Temperature, Popular works, Cosmology, Temperatuur, Kosmologie, ThermodynamicaShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Einstein's refrigerator: tales of the hot and cold
2003, Allen Lane
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0713994452 9780713994452
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The ruler, the clock and the thermometer
1. 37 (Constant temperature ; Into the Sahara ; Into the Antarctic ; When things go wrong ; Shocks from heat)
2. Measure for measure (The first sparks ; The thermometer's four inventors ; The Count from Massachusetts ; Steam power ; Thermodynamics' three laws ; Entropy and life)
3. Reading the Earth (Copernicus's harmony ; The minister, the lawyer and the fosil fish expert ; Cycles of ice ; The tundra's blossom ; El Niňo, old and new ; Greenhouse effect: the basic science ; Greehouse effect: the history ; Greenhouse effect: the politics)
4. Life in the extremes (Barton and Beebe's bathysphere ; Clambake I: hydrothermal vents ; Some like it hot ; Snowball Earth ; The third branch of life ; Melting the Earth ; Extraterrestrial life ; Life under two miles of ice)
5. Messages from the Sun (At the core ; Cosmic gall ; A thermal aside: Gamow, Rutherford and nuclear barriers ; A star is born ; Black holes and little green men ; The founding elements: hydrogen and helium ; Three-degree photons, two-degree neutrinos ; The Big Bang and the Big Crunch)
6. The quantum leap (Faraday's perfect gases ; The last liquid ; Superconductivity ; Duality, exclusion, and uncertainty ; The low-temperature world ; Einstein's refrigerator ; Chandra's journey ; Into the future)
Edition Notes
Originally published as: A matter of degrees. New York : Viking Penguin, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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