"On the Problem of the Entropy of the Universe as a Whole" in Physical Review.

TOLMAN, Richard C.

Published by American Physical Society, 1931

About this Item

TOLMAN, Richard C. "On the Problem of the Entropy of the Universe as a Whole" in Physical Review. Physical review, American Physical Society, 15 June 1931, second series, vol 37 number 12, pp 1555-1748, with the Tolman on pp 1639-1660. This issue has is 3-hole three-ring-bound, meaning that the decrepit binding was removed to reveal nicely preserved issues, with lovely spines (which on the Phys Rev are easily damaged), but with the three binding holes through-and-through. So, there's that. __+__ Tolman was a Ph.D. MIT (1910), then positions at University Michigan (1910-11), (1912-1916), then U Cincinnati and U of Illinois before US WWI involvement, then on to UC Berkeley, and then CalTech (1922-1948). "During World War II, Tolman served as vice chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, as scientific adviser to General Leslie R. Groves on the Manhattan Project."--DSB "The main thrust of Tolman s work in statistical mechanics, relativistic thermodynamics, and cosmology was mathematical and theoretical. An .early interest in relativity theory was further stimulated by Hubble s discovery in 1929 that red shifts are proportional to distance, and led to a series of studies on the applications of the general theory to the overall structure and evolution of the universe. In his comprehensive treatise on relativistic thermodynamics, Tolman presented his theory of a universe expanding and contracting rhythmically like a beating heart, arguing that gravity has the effect of counteracting the influence of radiation, thus preventing the complete cessation of motion as predicted by the second law of thermodynamics." --DSB.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1640121449857

Bibliographic Details

• Title: "On the Problem of the Entropy of the Universe as a Whole" in Physical Review.
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Publication Date: 1931
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Physics