TY - BOOK ID - 77945203 TI - Entropy demystified : the second law reduced to plain common sense PY - 2008 SN - 1281968293 9786611968298 9812832262 9789812832269 9812832254 9789812832252 PB - Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Entropy. KW - Second law of thermodynamics. KW - 2nd law of thermodynamics KW - Laws of thermodynamics KW - Thermodynamics KW - Second law of thermodynamics KW - thermodynamica KW - entropie KW - Entropy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945203 AB - 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 ER -