The origins of time-asymmetry in thermodynamics: the minus first law

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DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00021-1zbMath1222.82048MaRDI QIDQ720450

Jos Uffink, Harvey R. Brown

Publication date: 15 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)




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