More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

The progress of civilization is dependent on the effective use of energy and its transformation; from the sources of energy to how it can be applied to solve the needs of the citizens of this planet.

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Meets 10:00 AM-10:50 AM, MWF, in Room D221, E.Q. Labs will be in J-209 and J-215 in the E.Q. extension, starting at 1:30 PM. The details of the laboratory arrangements will be finalized on first day ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...