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Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

By Arieh Ben-Naim

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9812700552, 9789812700551, 9812700528, 9789812700520, 9789812770691
LCC
QC318.E57 B46 2007
Open Library ID
OL13169833M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2074549 bytes)
Pages
248\248
Topic
Economy
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this unique book, Arieh Ben-Naim invites the reader 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 textbooks of 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 reader through an abundance of dice games and examples from everyday life. The author paves the way for readers to discover for themselves what entropy is, how it changes, and most importantly, why it always changes in one direction in a spontaneous process.

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