Thermodynamics ought to be the cornerstone of any scientist's understanding of nature. ...
The development of thermodynamics in the nineteenth century was the most wide-reaching and fundamental advance since Newton's mechanics.
This blog serves as a central repository for information related to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics classes I teach at the University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Chemical Engineering. Comments are limited to undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering students at UCSB.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
" The real 'theory of everything' "
That would be thermodynamics. Yes, thermodynamics, not string theory or relativity or the standard model. At least, that's the claim of this recent book review in Science. Let me just pull some tantalizing quotes:
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