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Temperature (Science For Everyone)

This book on temperature was written to explain how physical concepts arise, how new methods of measuring physical quantities are developed, and how the progress in physics makes well-worn concepts move into modern fields of physics of which our predecessors were understandably quite ignorant. - Ya. Smorodinsky We now come to the next title in the Science for Everyone Series, Temperature written by Ya. A. Smorodinsky. The books has a lot of historical perspective on how the ideas of thermodynamics developed over the ages. Also the book takes you to many quantum phenomena and discusses in detail about many of them. From the back cover This book starts with a historical background on the notion of temperature and the development of the temperature scale. Then Ya. A. Smorodinsky covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics and statistical physics, only using concepts that will be familiar to high-school students. Having built a solid foundation, he exposes the reader to a number of phenomena that are essentially quantum-mechanical, but for which the concept of temperature "works", and works very well. These include the spins in crystal lattices, inverse population of energy levels, micro

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