Harvey S. Leff
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American physicist and physics teacher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harvey S. Leff is a United States physicist and physics teacher who is known primarily for his research and expository articles in physics, focusing on energy, entropy, Maxwell's demon, and the foundations of thermodynamics. He introduced the 'energy spreading' metaphor for entropy change.
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Published Works
- Maxwell's Demon, Entropy, Information, Computing (1990) (385)
- Maxwell's demon 2: entropy, classical and quantum information, computing (2002) (354)
- Thermal efficiency at maximum work output: New results for old heat engines (1987) (211)
- Maxwell's Demon 2 (1990) (112)
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (2010) (80)
- Thermodynamic cycles with nearly universal maximum-work efficiencies (1989) (78)
- Thermodynamic entropy: The spreading and sharing of energy (1996) (66)
- All about work (1992) (65)
- EER, COP, and the second law efficiency for air conditioners (1978) (64)
- Four Laws That Drive the Universe (2007) (61)
- Efficiency and efficacy of incandescent lamps (1996) (47)
- Entropy, Its Language, and Interpretation (2007) (43)
- Illuminating Physics with Light Bulbs. (1990) (35)
- Teaching the photon gas in introductory physics (2002) (33)
- Removing the Mystery of Entropy and Thermodynamics — Part I (2012) (33)
- Class of Ensembles in the Statistical Theory of Energy‐Level Spectra (1964) (32)
- STOPPING OBJECTS WITH ZERO EXTERNAL WORK : MECHANICS MEETS THERMODYNAMICS (1993) (31)
- Resource Letter MD-1: Maxwell's Demon (1990) (26)
- The Correlation of Standard Entropy with Enthalpy Supplied from 0 to 298.15 K (2009) (26)
- What if entropy were dimensionless (1999) (24)
- Available work from a finite source and sink: How effective is a Maxwell’s demon? (1987) (24)
- Irreversibility, entropy production, and thermal efficiency (1975) (22)
- Translational Invariance Properties of a Finite One‐Dimensional Hard‐Core Fluid (1967) (18)
- Entropy of measurement and erasure: Szilard’s membrane model revisited (1994) (18)
- Thermodynamic insights from a one‐particle gas (1995) (15)
- Entropy and heat along reversible paths for fluids and magnets (1995) (15)
- Proof of the Third Law of Thermodynamics for Ising Ferromagnets (1970) (13)
- Infinite‐Spin Limit of the Quantum Heisenberg Model (1971) (13)
- Reversible and irreversible heat engine and refrigerator cycles (2018) (12)
- Resolution of an entropy maximization controversy (1979) (11)
- The Mayer-Joule Principle: The Foundation of the First Law of Thermodynamics (2011) (11)
- Correlation Inequalities for Coupled Oscillators (1971) (10)
- Maxwell’s demon, power, and time (1990) (10)
- Every Life on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things (2021) (8)
- Statistical Thermodynamics of Incompletely Specified Systems (1964) (7)
- Systematic Characterization of mth‐Order Energy‐Level Spacing Distributions (1964) (7)
- Acceleration for circular motion (2002) (7)
- Entropy Differences between Ideal and Nonideal Systems (1969) (7)
- QUANTUM VERSION OF THE SZILARD ONE-ATOM ENGINE AND THE COST OF RAISING ENERGY BARRIERS (2005) (6)
- Maxwell's Demon And The Second Law (2002) (5)
- The Boltzmann reservoir: A model constant-temperature environment (2000) (5)
- Heat Engines and the Performance of External Work. (1978) (5)
- Thermodynamics of Systems with Internal Adiabatic Constraints (1970) (5)
- ASYMPTOTIC DENSITIES IN STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES (1964) (5)
- SYMMETRIZATION POSTULATE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. (1967) (4)
- Fluctuations in particle number for a photon gas (2015) (4)
- Work, Energy, and Kinematic Car Data (2002) (4)
- An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics. (2013) (3)
- Answer to Question ♯14 [‘‘Simple Arguments for the Boltzmann Factor?,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 63(2), 108 (1995)] (1995) (3)
- Thermodynamics Is Easy — I've Learned It Many Times (2007) (3)
- Translational Invariance Properties of a One‐Dimensional Fluid with Forces of Finite Extent (1967) (3)
- THE PHYSICS TEACHER (2012) (3)
- Remarks on Condensation Theory (1966) (3)
- Conveyor‐belt problem can be a slippery one (1987) (3)
- Kerosene vs. electric portable heaters: the question of risk (1984) (3)
- Entropy changes in real gases and liquids (1975) (2)
- Thermodynamics of combined-cycle electric power plants (2012) (2)
- Phase transitions for the anisotropic Heisenberg model (1971) (2)
- A constant-magnetization ensemble for the classical anisotropic Heisenberg model (1972) (2)
- An exact solution to the classical, anisotropic Heisenberg model with long-range Kac interactions (1974) (2)
- Isothermal heating: purist and utilitarian views (2018) (2)
- Brownian Ratchets: From Statistical Physics to Bio and Nano-Motors Brownian Ratchets: From Statistical Physics to Bio and Nano-Motors. CuberoDavid RenzoniFerruccio 198 pp. Cambridge U.P., New York, 2016. Price: $140 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-107-06352-5. (2017) (1)
- DRGs are not enough. (1986) (1)
- Energy and Entropy (2020) (1)
- CHAPTER 1. Overview (1990) (1)
- A Mixing Route to Thermodynamics (1993) (1)
- The American Association of Physics Teachers: Summer 2008 Award Citations—Edmonton, Alberta (2009) (1)
- On the Connections between Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (1969) (1)
- Melding Two Approaches to Entropy (2010) (1)
- Thermodynamics: History and Philosophy: Facts, Trends, Debates (1993) (1)
- Multisystem temperature equilibration and the second law (1977) (1)
- On the Bethe Hypothesis for the Anisotropic Heisenberg Chain (1968) (1)
- Response to Andersen (2012) (1)
- Principles of Data Analysis (2003) (1)
- Conveyor‐belt work, displacement, and dissipation (1990) (1)
- What if Energy Flowed from Cold to Hot? Counterfactual Thought Experiments (2020) (1)
- CHAPTER 4. Maxwell's Demon, Information Erasure, and Computing (1990) (1)
- Reflections & Extensions (2020) (0)
- Answer to Question #78. A question about the Maxwell relations in thermodynamics (2002) (0)
- Entropy: Energy's Needed Partner (2020) (0)
- Energy is Not Enough (2020) (0)
- More on the demons of thermodynamics (2023) (0)
- 2009 Distinguished Service Citations Awarded to Paul Hickman, Charles H. Holbrow, Bob Shurtz, Gary White, and Courtney Willis (2009) (0)
- Oersted Medal Presented to George F. Smoot III (2009) (0)
- Smoluchowski Trap Doors and Information Acquisition (1990) (0)
- Working, Heating, Cooling (2020) (0)
- 2008 Distinguished Service Citations Awarded to Dean Baird, Anne Cox, Harry Manos, Karen Jo Matsler, Steve Shropshire, and Richard Zitto (2008) (0)
- Acknowledgments and Copyright Information (1990) (0)
- The American Association of Physics Teachers: Citations for Distinguished Service, 2008 (2008) (0)
- Sanctity of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (2020) (0)
- Chronological Bibliography with Annotations and Selected Quotations (1990) (0)
- Interdependence of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics (2022) (0)
- Difference-Equation Solutions for the Linear Ising Model and Nearest-Neighbor Fluid (1968) (0)
- Gases, Solids, Polymers (2020) (0)
- American Association of Physics Teachers Awards Presented at the Winter 2009 AAPT Meeting February 2009 in Chicago, Illinois (2009) (0)
- 2008 Distinguished Service Citations Awarded to Dewey Dykstra, Andrew Graham, Tom Senior, Chuck Stone, Barbara Wolff-Reichert and Jonathan Reichert, and Mike Wolter (2008) (0)
- Thermodynamics of Crawford’s energy equipartition journeys (1994) (0)
- Prelims, Preface to the first edition, Preface to the second edition, Acknowledgments and Copyright information (1990) (0)
- Erratum: Entropy and heat along reversible paths for fluids and magnets [Am. J. Phys. 63, 814–817 (1995)] (1995) (0)
- Message from the Chair: How involved are you in the Forum? (2004) (0)
- Advanced labs support by AAPT (2007) (0)
- Information Erasure: Landauer’s Principle (1990) (0)
- Maxwell's Demon and the Culture of Entropy (1997) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. Historical and Philosophical Considerations (1990) (0)
- Language & Philosophy of Thermodynamics (2020) (0)
- Computation: Thermodynamics and Limits (1990) (0)
- Energy is Universal (2020) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. Maxwell's Demon and Information Acquisition (1990) (0)
- Comments on renormalization group series (1977) (0)
- Appendices: Mathematical Identities (2020) (0)
- A reminder for us all (1996) (0)
- Numerical Entropy (2020) (0)
- Radiation & Photons (2020) (0)
- Early History and Philosophical Considerations (1990) (0)
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