Brownian ratchet
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title:
Brownian ratchet
text:
In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, the Brownian ratchet or Feynman–Smoluchowski ratchet is an apparent perpetual motion machine of the second kind, first analysed in 1912 as a thought experiment by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. It was popularised by American Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962, during his Messenger Lectures series The Character of Physical Law in Cornell University in 1
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Perpetual motion device
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
date created:
2004-01-16T01:40:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T18:42:44Z
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