Entropy demystified: The second law reduced to plain common sense

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-221

  Ben Naim, Arieh ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON SENSE; DICE GAMES; SECOND LAW; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; SPONTANEOUS PROCESS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84967373213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/6261     Document Type: Book

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