TEMPERATURES VERY LOW AND VERY HIGH

This concise study of temperature and its extremes is designed to provide physics students, laymen and the general reader a greater understanding into the total meaning of "temperature" as a concept.The very subject of "temperature" not only poses questions, but also provokes ample discussion. Among the most important topics lucidly discussed and explicated in this highly readable study How are extremes of temperature measured? How are such extremes of temperature produced? What is the international temperature scale? Isothermic and adiabatic processes The Third Law of Thermodynamics Fusion reactions Planck's Radiation Law Energy and entropy Thermodynamics and negative temperature The initial chapters of this volume deal with temperature as it exists in macroscopic physics. The story behind the production and measurement of temperature near absolute zero is discussed in the succeeding chapters followed by a review of the production and measurement in the fifty million degree range. And finally, the last chapter goes beyond infinity into the realm of negative temperatures.