The Necessity of Entropy: The Macroscopic Argument, The Microscopic Response, and Some Practical Consequences

by Judith Herzfeld

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Students often find thermodynamics baffling. This should not be surprising because it took many years for some of the best scientific minds to work it out. Nor should that arduous history be surprising because thermodynamics links visible phenomena with molecular phenomena, two realms that are more often considered separately. However, the grand ambition of this linkage has been elegantly established and there is nothing convoluted about it.

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Publisher
Brandeis University
Subjects
Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Textbook Maps
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Modules
  9. 1: Introduction
  10. 2: The Macroscopic Argument
  11. 3: The Microscopic Response
  12. 4: Some Practical Consequences
  13. Appendices
  14. A: Notation
  15. B: Time’s Arrow
  16. C: Practical Variations of the 2nd Law
  17. D: Energy Free to Do Work
  18. E: Interpreting the Fundamental Equations
  19. F: Maxwell’s Relations
  20. E: Boltzmann’s Constant
  21. Back Matter
  22. Detailed Licensing