AS a result of the many-sided developments of the last twenty years, the theoretical physicist has come to draw more and more upon statistical mechanics for the detailed interpretation of experimental ...

Anyone who has washed dishes can tell you that a lot of stuff clings to dirty plates, glasses, and silverware after a meal. And anyone who has developed an automatic dishwasher detergent to clean the ...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we explore two related areas of physics, statistical physics and thermodynamics. First up we have two leading lights in statistical physics who ...