How Long to Read Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos

How Long Does it Take to Read Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos by William Graham Hoover

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Description

A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the ?reversibility paradox?, with modern tools. This book describes their work from the perspective of computer simulation, emphasizing the author's approach to the problem of understanding the compatibility, and even inevitability, of the irreversible second law of thermodynamics with an underlying time-reversible mechanics. Computer simulation has made it possible to probe reversibility from a variety of directions and ?chaos theory? or ?nonlinear dynamics? has supplied a useful vocabulary and set of concepts, which allow a fuller explanation of irreversibility than that available to Boltzmann or to Green and Kubo and Onsager. Clear illustration of concepts is emphasized throughout, and reinforced with a glossary of technical terms from the specialized fields which have been combined here to focus on a common theme.The book begins with a discussion contrasting the idealized reversibility of basic physics and the pragmatic irreversibility of real life. Computer models, and simulation, are next discussed and illustrated. Simulations provide the means to assimilate concepts through worked-out examples. State-of-the-art analyses, from the point of view of dynamical systems, are applied to many-body examples from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and to chaotic irreversible flows from finite-difference, finite-element, and particle-based continuum simulations. Two necessary concepts from dynamical-systems theory ? fractals and Lyapunov instability ? are fundamental to the approach.Undergraduate-level physics, calculus, and ordinary differential equations are sufficient background for a full appreciation of this book, which is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and research workers. The generous assortment of examples worked out in the text will stimulate readers to explore the rich and fruitful field of study which links fundamental reversible laws of physics to the irreversibility surrounding us all.

How long is Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos?

Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos by William Graham Hoover is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos aloud.

What Reading Level is Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos?

Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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