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| Author(s): | V. Cápek and D. P. Sheehan |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 1402030150 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 347pp | |
| Price: | £87.00 |
| Review Date: | 08 April 2005 |
| Review: | Over the last 20 years, the absolute status of the Second Law has come under increased scrutiny. Since the early 1980s, about 50 papers representing over 20 challenges have appeared in the scientific literature. This monograph looks at the modern challenges to the Second Law. The challenges have spanned three orders of magnitude in temperature, twelve orders of magnitude in size and are manifest in condensed matter, plasma, gravitational, chemical and biological physics; and cross classical and quantum mechanical boundaries. The book includes chapters on: Entropy and the Second Law; Challenges (1870–1980); Theoretical modern quantum challenges; Low-temperature experiments and proposals; Modern classical challenges; Gravitational challenges; Chemical non-equilibrium steady state; Plasma paradoxes; MEMS/NEMS devices; and Special topics. |