It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics by Jean Bricmont
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Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, what is its relation to fluxes of heat? One might ask similar questions about probabilities: Do they express subjective judgments by us, humans, or do they reflect facts about the world, i.e. frequencies. And what notion of probability is used in the natural sciences, in particular statistical...
Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics by Jean Bricmont is 375 pages long, and a total of 95,625 words.
This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics aloud.
Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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