Entropy demystified : the second law reduced to plain common sense
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Toh Tuck Link :
World Scientific,
c2009.
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| Edición: | Rev. ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the revised edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Programs for simulating some of the games in the book
- Introduction, and a short history of the second law of thermodynamics
- A brief introduction to probability theory, information theory, and all the rest
- First let us play with real dice
- Let's play with simplified dice and have a preliminary grasp of the second law
- Experience the second law with all your five senses
- Finally, grasp it with your common sense
- Translating from the dice-world to the real world
- Reflections on the status of the second law of thermodynamics as a law of physics