Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense
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Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense

The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

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Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense

The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

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Publisher
World Scientific
Year
2007
ISBN
9789812770691
Topic
Ciencias biológicas
Subtopic
Ciencias en general

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  4. 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest
  5. 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice
  6. 4 Let’s Play with Simplified Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law
  7. 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses
  8. 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense
  9. 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World
  10. 8 Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics
  11. References and Suggested Reading