• gentooer
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      3 months ago

      The book “States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein.

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        3 months ago

        That’s a good one lol, love it when a textbook has some humor.

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      3 months ago

      I can’t remember which text it is, but it opens talking about a bunch of physicists studying stat mech then suck starting shotguns. Then it goes “and now it’s our turn to study statistical mechanics”