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Physics and Chance Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

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ISBN-10: 0521558816

ISBN-13: 9780521558815

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lawrence Sklar

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Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and to attempts to understand its foundational elements.
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Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/29/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.82" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Introduction
Historical sketch
Probability
Statistical explanation
Equilibrium theory
Describing non-equilibrium
Rationalising non-equilibrium theory
Cosmology and irreversibility
The reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics
The direction of time
The current state of the major questions
References
Index