Andy Rex

Current Courses - Fall 2007
Physics 111: College Physics
Honors 212:  Origins of the Modern World View

Courses - Spring 2007
Physics 112:  College Physics
STS 345:  Physics in the Modern World: Copenhagen to Manhattan

Current Interests

• Maxwell's Demon and the Physics of Information
• Reform of the Introductory Physics Course
• Integrating Physics and Calculus
• Modern Physics textbook (Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers)
• Physics of Baseball

Some Recent Publications

• Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Third Edition), Andrew Rex and Stephen T. Thornton, Thompson Brooks/Cole (Pacific Grove, CA), 2006.
• Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing, Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex, Institute of Physics (Bristol), 2003.
• Integrated Physics and Calculus (Volume 1 and Volume 2), Andrew Rex and Martin Jackson, Addison Wesley Longman (San Francisco), 2000.
• Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition, Andrew Rex and Stephen T. Thornton, Saunders College Publishing (Philadelphia), 2000.
• "Maxwell's Demon and the Culture of Entropy," Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex, Physics Essays 10, 125-149 (1997).
• "Entropy of Measurement and Erasure: Szilard's Membrane Model Revisited," Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex, Am. J. Phys. 63, 994-1000 (1994).
• "Entropy and Information for an Automated Maxwell's Demon," Andy Rex and Ross Larsen, PhysComp '92, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 93-101 (1993).
• Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex, Adam Hilger (Bristol, England) and Princeton University Press (Princeton), 1990.

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