Matter of Degrees What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U Niverse

Name: Matter of Degrees What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U Niverse
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ISBN: 9780142002780

ISBN-10: 014200278X

ISBN-13: 9780142002780

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Authors: Gino Segre

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.70" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Gino Segre is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics. Segre has served as director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation. He lives in Philadelphia.



Introduction: the Ruler, the Clock, and the Thermometer



98.6


Constant Temperature


Into the Sahara


Into the Antarctic


When Things Go Wrong


Shocks from Heat



Measure for Measure


The First Sparks


The Thermometer's Four Inventors


The Count from Massachusetts


Steam Power


Thermodynamics' Three Laws


Entropy and Life



Reading the Earth


Copernicus's Harmony


The Minister, the Lawyer, and the Fossil Fish Expert


Cycles of Ice


The Tundra's Bloom


El Nino, Old and New


Greenhouse Effect: The Basic Science


Greenhouse Effect: The History


Greenhouse Effect: The Politics



Life in the Extremes


Barton and Beebe's Bathysphere


Clambake I: Hydrothermal Vents


Some Like It Hot


Snowball Earth


The Third Branch of Life


Melting the Earth


Extraterrestrial Life


Life Under Two Miles of Ice



Messages from the Sun


At the Core


Cosmic Gall


A Thermal Aside: Gamow, Rutherford, and Nuclear Barriers


A Star Is Born


Black Holes and Little Green Men


The Founding Elements: Hydrogen and Helium


Three-Degree Photons, Two-Degree Neutrinos


The Big Bang and the Big Crunch



The Quantum Leap


Faraday's Perfect Gases


The Last Liquid


Superconductivity


Duality, Exclusion, and Uncertainty


The Low-Temperature World


Einstein's Refrigerator


Chandra's Journey


Into the Future


References


Acknowledgments


Index