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== External links == {{wikiquote}} * [https://quantamagazine.org/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startle-scientists-20210422 How Maxwell's Demon Continues to Startle Scientists] * Bennett, C. H. (1987) "Demons, Engines and the Second Law", ''[[Scientific American]]'', November, ''pp''108-116 * {{cite journal|author=Binder, P.-M.|year=2008|pages= 1334β1335|issue=5906|title=Reflections on a Wall of Light|volume=322|journal=Science|doi=10.1126/science.1166681|pmid=19039125|s2cid=42821883}} * {{cite journal|author1=Earman, J. |author2=Norton, J. |name-list-style=amp|year=1998|title=Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell's Demon. Part I. From Maxwell to Szilard|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|volume=29|issue=4|pages=435β471|doi=10.1016/S1355-2198(98)00023-9|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist1.pdf|bibcode=1998SHPMP..29..435E}} * {{cite journal|author1=Earman, J. |author2=Norton, J. |name-list-style=amp|year=1999|title=Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell's Demon. Part II. From Szilard to Landauer and Beyond|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|volume=30|issue=1|pages=1β40|doi= 10.1016/s1355-2198(98)00026-4|bibcode=1999SHPMP..30....1E|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist2.pdf }} * {{cite book|author=Feynman, R. P.|title=Feynman Lectures on Computation|url=https://archive.org/details/feynmanlectureso0000feyn|url-access=registration|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=978-0-14-028451-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/feynmanlectureso0000feyn/page/148 148β150]|display-authors=etal}} * {{cite book|author=Jordy, W. H.|title=Henry Adams: Scientific Historian|publisher=New Haven|year=1952|isbn=978-0-685-26683-0 }} * {{cite web|url=https://khanexercises.appspot.com/video?v=aKRDvSZ-igA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317034202/http://khanexercises.appspot.com/video?v=aKRDvSZ-igA|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-03-17|title=Maxwell's Demon|author=Khan, Salman }} * Maroney, O. J. E. (2009) "[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-entropy/ "Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy]" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Autumn 2009 Edition) * {{cite book|author=Maxwell, J. C.|title=Theory of Heat|url=https://archive.org/details/theoryofheat00maxwrich|publisher= London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green|year=1871 }}, reprinted (2001) New York: Dover, {{ISBN|0-486-41735-2}} * {{cite journal|author=Norton, J.|year=2005|title=Eaters of the lotus: Landauer's principle and the return of Maxwell's demon|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|volume=36|issue=2|pages=375β411|doi=10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.12.002|url=http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001729/02/Norton.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901211014/http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001729/02/Norton.pdf|archive-date=2006-09-01|url-status=live|bibcode=2005SHPMP..36..375N|citeseerx=10.1.1.468.3017|s2cid=21104635 }} * Raizen, Mark G. (2011) "Demons, Entropy, and the Quest for Absolute Zero", ''[[Scientific American]], ''March, ''pp''54-59 * Reaney, Patricia. [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=qw1170340561317B216 "Scientists build nanomachine"], ''Reuters'', February 1, 2007 * Rubi, J Miguel, "[http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law&sc=SA_20081020 Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?]"; Scientific American, October 2008 : * Splasho (2008) β [http://splasho.com/blog/essays/maxwell-thermodynamics-meets-the-demon/ Historical development of Maxwell's demon] * Weiss, Peter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070621222301/http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20001007/bob9.asp "Breaking the Law β Can quantum mechanics + thermodynamics = perpetual motion?"], ''Science News'', October 7, 2000 [[Category:1867 introductions]] [[Category:Fictional demons]] [[Category:James Clerk Maxwell]] [[Category:Nanotechnology]] [[Category:Perpetual motion]] [[Category:Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics]] [[Category:Thought experiments in physics]]
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