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Entropy demystified : the second law reduced to plain common sense
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ISBN: 1281968293 9786611968298 9812832262 9789812832269 9812832254 9789812832252 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific,

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In this unique book, the reader is invited 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 most textbooks on 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 read

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