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001481392 1001_ $$aFleck, Robert,$$eauthor.
001481392 24510 $$aEntropy and the second law of thermodynamics :$$b...or why things tend to go wrong and seem to get worse /$$cRobert Fleck.
001481392 264_1 $$aCham :$$bSpringer,$$c[2023]
001481392 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 130 pages) :$$billustrations (some color).
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001481392 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001481392 5050_ $$aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Heat -- Chapter 3. The Laws of Thermodynamics- Chapter 4. Statistical Interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics- Chapter 5. Implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Why Things Go Wrong -- Chapter 6. So, What's To Do?
001481392 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001481392 520__ $$aThis book is a brief and accessible popular science text intended for a broad audience and of particular interest also to science students and specialists. Using a minimum of mathematics, a number of qualitative and quantitative examples, and clear illustrations, the author explains the science of thermodynamics in its full historical context, focusing on the concepts of energy and its availability and transformation in thermodynamic processes. His ultimate aim is to gain a deep understanding of the second law -- the increase of entropy -- and its rather disheartening message of a universe descending inexorably into chaos and disorder. It also examines the connection between the second law and why things go wrong in our daily lives. Readers will enhance their science literacy and feel more at home on the science side of author C. P. Snow's celebrated two-culture, science-humanities divide, and hopefully will feel more at home in the universe knowing that the disorder we deal with in our daily lives is not anyone's fault but Nature's.
001481392 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 10, 2023).
001481392 650_0 $$aEntropy$$vPopular works.
001481392 650_0 $$aSecond law of thermodynamics$$vPopular works.
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001481392 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aFleck, Robert$$tEntropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics$$dCham : Springer,c2023$$z9783031349492
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