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Book Synopsis Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Download or read book Warmth Disperses and Time Passes written by Hans Christian Von Baeyer and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know what's happening in the world, follow the heat. Why can't your coffee "steal" heat from the air to stay piping hot? Why can't Detroit make a car that's 100 percent efficient? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles, including why time inexorably runs in only one direction. In Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it. With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling coffee cup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.
Download or read book Heat & Cold written by Barry Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heat, a History written by On Barak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifts the conversation from abstract “global warming” to the deeply human impacts of heat—and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility have served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all of these measures have ultimately fueled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific, economic, and cultural forces that have numbed our responses, this book charts a way out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action.
Book Synopsis History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies by : Donald A. Beattie
Download or read book History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies written by Donald A. Beattie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume in a series that has surveyed advances in solar energy research since the oil shock of the early 1970s provides a broad overview of the U.S. solar thermal program. It summarizes the conclusions of each of the nine technical volumes in the series and offers lessons drawn from the program for future governmental efforts to foster specific technologies. Reading this history, it becomes clear that what was unique about the federal solar program was its attempt to create research guidelines that included commercialization as part of the expected outcome. The three contributors, all active participants in the solar project, are quite candid about what worked and what did not (and why). The result is a tale of bureaucracy and politics worth pondering as we debate the proper relationship between government and science.
Book Synopsis White Heat 1964-1970 by : Dominic Sandbrook
Download or read book White Heat 1964-1970 written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.
Book Synopsis The History of the Miami Heat by : John Nichols
Download or read book The History of the Miami Heat written by John Nichols and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the background and history of the Miami Heat pro basketball team, including players Alfonzo Mourning and coach Pat Riley.
Book Synopsis Heat and Thermodynamics by : Christopher J.T Lewis
Download or read book Heat and Thermodynamics written by Christopher J.T Lewis and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the history of the ideas of what heat was, from the ancient element of fire to the 18th-century notion of heat as an indestructible fluid. It explains the revolutionary experiments that developed the early theories of thermodynamics and discusses the theories that helped formalise the new ideas of heat and energy.
Book Synopsis Maxwell's Demon by : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Download or read book Maxwell's Demon written by Hans Christian Von Baeyer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You arrive at your office and unpack your breakfast from the local deli. The piping-hot coffee and chilly orange juice you purchased just minutes ago are now both disappointingly lukewarm. Why can't the coffee "steal" heat from the juice to stay hot? Why does even the most state-of-the-art car operate at a mere 30 percent efficiency--and why can't Detroit ever better the odds, no matter what space age materials we invent? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles. If you want to know what's happening in the physical world, you've got to follow the heat. In Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it, most notably James Clerk Maxwell, whose demonic invention has bedeviled generations of physics students with its light-fingered attempts to flout the laws of thermodynamics. An intelligent, submicroscopic gremlin who could sort atoms as they flew at him, Maxwell's Demon would effectively make an impossible task--forcing heat to flow backward--possible. Explaining why the Demon can't have his day has been an intellectual gauntlet taken up by a century and a half of the world's most brilliant scientists, whose discoveries Professor von Baeyer vividly etches. The centuries-old discipline of thermodynamics informs today's most cutting-edge research in chaos, complexity, and the grand unified theory of everything--physics' Holy Grail. Even more amazing, the study of heat turns out to explainsomething seemingly unrelated--time, and why it can run in only one direction. With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling teacup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives. Readers will find themselves rooting for Maxwell's ever-mischievous Demon even as they come to appreciate that he is doomed to failure.
Book Synopsis Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Download or read book Warmth Disperses and Time Passes written by Hans Christian Von Baeyer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Temperature of History by : Stephen G. Brush
Download or read book The Temperature of History written by Stephen G. Brush and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine by : Robert Henry Thurston
Download or read book A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by N.Y.: D. Appleton. This book was released on 1878 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume III by : Pablo Lorenzano
Download or read book HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume III written by Pablo Lorenzano and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is a component of Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in four volumes covers several topics such as: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science; The Nature and Structure of Scientific Theories Natural Science; A Short History of Molecular Biology; The Structure of the Darwinian Argument In The Origin of Species; History of Measurement Theory; Episodes of XX Century Cosmology: A Historical Approach; Philosophy of Economics; Social Sciences: Historical And Philosophical Overview of Methods And Goals; Introduction to Ethics of Science and Technology; The Ethics of Science and Technology; The Control of Nature and the Origins of The Dichotomy Between Fact And Value; Science and Empires: The Geo-Epistemic Location of Knowledge; Science and Religion; Scientific Knowledge and Religious Knowledge - Significant Epistemological Reference Points; Thing Called Philosophy of Technology; Transitions from Function-Oriented To Effect-Oriented Technologies. Some Thought on the Nature of Modern Technology; Technical Agency and Sources of Technological Pessimism These four volumes are aimed at a broad spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators and Research Personnel.
Book Synopsis Facing the Heat Barrier by : T.A. Heppenheimer
Download or read book Facing the Heat Barrier written by T.A. Heppenheimer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume from the NASA History Series presents an overview of hypersonics that will appeal to readers interested in the history and future of aeronautics and astronautics. 2006 edition.
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the U.S. Regional Soybean Industrial Products Laboratory (Urbana, Illinois; 1936-2017) by : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Download or read book History of the U.S. Regional Soybean Industrial Products Laboratory (Urbana, Illinois; 1936-2017) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With an extensive subject and geographical index. 76 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Book Synopsis The Kind of Motion We Call Heat by : Stephen G. Brush
Download or read book The Kind of Motion We Call Heat written by Stephen G. Brush and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Particles, Bubbles And Drops: Their Motion, Heat And Mass Transfer by : Stathis Efstathios E Michaelides
Download or read book Particles, Bubbles And Drops: Their Motion, Heat And Mass Transfer written by Stathis Efstathios E Michaelides and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of multiphase flows has grown by leaps and bounds in the last thirty years and is now regarded as a major discipline. Engineering applications, products and processes with particles, bubbles and drops have consistently grown in number and importance. An increasing number of conferences, scientific fora and archived journals are dedicated to the dissemination of information on flow, heat and mass transfer of fluids with particles, bubbles and drops. Numerical computations and “thought experiments” have supplemented most physical experiments and a great deal of the product design and testing processes. The literature on computational fluid dynamics with particles, bubbles and drops has grown at an exponential rate, giving rise to new results, theories and better understanding of the transport processes with particles, bubbles and drops. This book captures and summarizes all these advances in a unified, succinct and pedagogical way.
