An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

THIS admirable little book, based on lectures given by the author in the University of Cambridge to students of varied scientific interests, contains an account of the fundamental principles of ...

Sadi Carnot was a child of the Industrial Revolution. Steam power was widely used in manufacturing and mining by his birth in 1796, and the first steamboat and first steam railroad locomotive were ...