Maxwell's Demon by Harvey S Leff
About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical demon as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science--and linkages have been established between Maxwe-
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Harvey S. Leff is Professor Emeritus of Physics at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California and Visiting Scholar at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He has published widely in thermal physics, writing primarily for physics and chemistry teachers and students. With Andrew Rex, Leff co-edited Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing. He served as President of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, and a Consulting Editor for the American Journal of Physics. When not doing physics, Leff plays drums in two bands, The Leff Trio and Jazz Up, and he is the former drummer in The Out-Laws of Physics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691605463 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691605467 |
| Title | Maxwell's Demon |
| Author | Harvey S Leff |
| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 362 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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