Archive for the ‘thermodynamics’ Category

My message to the everything list On 14.01.2012 08:21 John Clark said the following: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012  Craig Weinberg<whatsonster@gmail.com>  wrote: … > For heavens sake, I went into quite a lot of detail about how the > code is executed so that protein gets made, and it could not be more > [...]

There was a thermodynamics related question on the everything-list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/msg/a7abc464f7392055 and my answer is below. I used to work in chemical thermodynamics for awhile and I give you the answer from such a viewpoint. As this is the area that I know, then my message will be a bit long and I guess it differs [...]

There was a discussion on the everything list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/thread/ae327624f1257170 where among other things there was discussion between David Nyman and 1Z on whether heat was eliminated onltologically after its reduction to molecular motion. It has started afther the next statement Ontological reduction does not necessarily entail epistemological elimination, but it does entail ontological elimination. My comment to [...]

J. theor. Biol. (1970) 28, 411-413 Note on Complex Systems STUART A. NEWMAN http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193(70)90078-0 A short paper that states: A view is presented which argues that hierarchically organized, complex systems are in no sense unlikely to come about in a world in which thermodynamics is operative, and that they, in fact, often represent states of [...]

Introduction I used to work in chemical thermodynamics for quite a while. No doubt, I have heard of the informational entropy but I have always thought that it has nothing to do with the entropy in chemical thermodynamics. Recently I have started reading papers on artificial life and it came to me as a complete [...]

I have received from the author a reprint of his paper I.A. Stepanov, Thermodynamics of substances with negative thermal expansion and negative compressibility, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 356 (2010) 1168-1172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.03.013 where it is claimed: It is shown that for substances with positive thermal expansion and positive compressibility, and for substances with negative thermal expansion [...]

In the blog of Prof Claes Johnson http://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2010/05/atmospheric-lapse-rate.html I have found a link to his book Computational Thermodynamics that immediately caught my attention as I used to work in this area some time ago. Unfortunately his book happens to have nothing with what people understand under Computational Thermodynamics, rather his goal was to suggest a new Second [...]

I have discovered this site http://thermodynamics.materialgeek.com/ after a pingback from it, as a response on my comment on the book Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach. The owner of the blog collects blog posts about thermodynamics. If is fun to see what people write about thermodynamics.