| This text presents a comprehensive approach to entropy, recognizing that it is a concept often misunderstood. Beginning with an historical classical viewpoint, a statistical view then follows to give a more physical picture.
This book is a revised version of my earlier book Entropy and Low Temperature Physics, with here rather less emphasis on the low temperature aspects of the subjects. The concept of entropy lies at the heart of thermodynamics and is often thought of as obscure, even mysterious. The aim of this book is thus the same as before, namely, to make accessible the idea of entropy and to encourege an intuitive appreciation of its nature and use. In this new version, I have added exercises for the reader; mostly they are used to extend the coverage of the text. |
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