FOR THOSE READERS who like short book reviews, let me assist you. "Four Laws That Drive the Universe," by Peter Atkins is an outstanding introduction to thermodynamics. This brief book converts ...
A COMPARATIVE beginner in the study of physics automatically subscribes to the time-honoured convention, which the average textbook does little to dispel, of grouping the subdivisions of that branch ...
For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...