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200 10$aEntropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics $e... or Why Things Tend to Go Wrong and Seem to Get Worse /$fby Robert Fleck
205   $a1st ed. 2023.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023.
215   $a1 online resource (0 pages)
311 08$a9783031349492 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $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?
330   $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. .
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606   $aThermodynamics
606   $aStatistical physics
606   $aMathematics
606   $aSocial sciences
606   $aSociology
606   $aStatistical Mechanics
606   $aThermodynamics
606   $aStatistical Physics
606   $aMathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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615  0$aThermodynamics.
615  0$aStatistical physics.
615  0$aMathematics.
615  0$aSocial sciences.
615  0$aSociology.
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615 24$aThermodynamics.
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