Entropy and the second law : interpretation and misss-interpretationsss
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World Scientific,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: from heat engines to disorder, information spreading, freedom, and more
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- Forget about entropy for a while, let us go and play igames
- The astounding emergence of the entropy of a classic ideal gas out of Shannon's measure of information
- Examples and their interpretations. Challenges for any descriptor of entropy
- Finally, let us discuss the most mysterious second law of thermodynamics
- Appendix A
- Epilogue