A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Physics Today

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 32-37

  Lieb, Elliott H ^a   Yngvason, Jakob ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics   (Austria)

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EID: 0005753553     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.883034     Document Type: Article

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