The Physics of Energy. Robert L Jaffe and Washington Taylor. 895 pp. Cambridge U.P., New York, 2018. Price : $79.99 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-107-01665-1.(Robert Socolow, Reviewer.)

摘要

It has to start somewhere! The physics curriculum at all levels needs revision to incorporate applications where the Earth is the system. Ask a random college student why the Earth doesn’t get hotter and hotter as the sun shines on it, and you get a blank stare, or perhaps some reference to ice or ozone. We physics educators can do better than that-and teach about equilibrium and thermal radiation along the way.