00758nam0-22002531i-450-990001128940403321000112894FED01000112894(Aleph)000112894FED0100011289420000920d1970----km-y0itay50------baengGruppen mit Abzahlbaren Automorphismengruppende BaerGottingenVandenhoeck & Ruprecht1970Hamburger Mathematischen Einzelschriften Neue Folge -Heft 2Baer,Reinhold44538ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK99000112894040332114-B-2117242MA1MA1Gruppen mit Abzahlbaren Automorphismengruppen344787UNINAING0103390nam 22006855 450 991074699550332120251009082232.03-031-34950-410.1007/978-3-031-34950-8(CKB)28305424900041(MiAaPQ)EBC30754224(Au-PeEL)EBL30754224(DE-He213)978-3-031-34950-8(PPN)272740179(EXLCZ)992830542490004120230925d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEntropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics ... or Why Things Tend to Go Wrong and Seem to Get Worse /by Robert Fleck1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (0 pages)9783031349492 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 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?This 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. .Statistical mechanicsThermodynamicsStatistical physicsMathematicsSocial sciencesSociologyStatistical MechanicsThermodynamicsStatistical PhysicsMathematics in the Humanities and Social SciencesSociologyStatistical mechanics.Thermodynamics.Statistical physics.Mathematics.Social sciences.Sociology.Statistical Mechanics.Thermodynamics.Statistical Physics.Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.Sociology.536.7Fleck Robert1430253MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910746995503321Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics3569968UNINA