TY  - BOOK
AU  - Čápek,Vladislav
AU  - Sheehan,Daniel P.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment 
T2  - Fundamental Theories of Physics, An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application
SN  - 9781402030161
U1  - 530 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - PHYSICS
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - STATISTICAL PHYSICS
KW  - QUANTUM OPTICS
KW  - PHYSICS, GENERAL
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
KW  - QUANTUM OPTICS, QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, NONLINEAR OPTICS
N1  - Entropy and the Second Law -- Challenges (1870-1980) -- Modern Quantum Challenges: Theory -- Low-Temperature Experiments and Proposals -- Modern Classical Challenges -- Gravitational Challenges -- Chemical Nonequilibrium Steady States -- Plasma Paradoxes -- MEMS/NEMS Devices -- Special Topics
N2  - The second law of thermodynamics is considered one of the central laws of science, engineering and technology. For over a century it has been assumed to be inviolable by the scientific community. Over the last 10-20 years, however, more than two dozen challenges to it have appeared in the physical literature - more than during any other period in its 150-year history. The number and variety of these represent a cogent threat to its absolute status. This is the first book to document and critique these modern challenges. Written by two leading exponents of this rapidly emerging field, it covers the theoretical and experimental aspects of principal challenges. In addition, unresolved foundational issues concerning entropy and the second law are explored. This book should be of interest to anyone whose work or research is touched by the second law
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3016-9
ER  -