Entropy demystified: the second law reduced to plain common sense
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years - entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept.Written in an accessible style, the book guides the read |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 223 p.) |
ISBN: | 9789812832269 9812832254 9812832262 |
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title_auth | Entropy demystified the second law reduced to plain common sense |
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title_full | Entropy demystified the second law reduced to plain common sense Arieh Ben-Naim |
title_fullStr | Entropy demystified the second law reduced to plain common sense Arieh Ben-Naim |
title_full_unstemmed | Entropy demystified the second law reduced to plain common sense Arieh Ben-Naim |
title_short | Entropy demystified |
title_sort | entropy demystified the second law reduced to plain common sense |
title_sub | the second law reduced to plain common sense |
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topic_facet | SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics Entropy Thermodynamics Second law of thermodynamics Entropie Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik 2 |
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