A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe - Tapa blanda

Segre, Gino

 
9780142002780: A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
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ISBN 10: 014200278X ISBN 13: 9780142002780
Editorial: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003

Sinopsis

In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very essence of both life and matter. Why is the internal temperature of most mammals fixed near 98.6°? How do geologists use temperature to track the history of our planet? Why is the quest for absolute zero and its quantum mechanical significance the key to understanding superconductivity? And what can we learn from neutrinos, the subatomic "messages from the sun" that may hold the key to understanding the birth-and death-of our solar system? In answering these and hundreds of other temperature-sensitive questions, Segrè presents an uncanny view of the world around us.

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Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Segrè has served as director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation and received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. This is his first book.

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Editorial
Penguin Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
014200278X
ISBN 13 
9780142002780
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Número de páginas
321
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9780670031016: A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe

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ISBN 10:  0670031011 ISBN 13:  9780670031016
Editorial: Viking Pr, 2002
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