The aim of this book is to identify the unifying threads by providing surveys of the uses and concepts of entropy in diverse areas of mathematics and the physical sciences.
However, the concept of entropy has long been misinterpreted and misused - making it the greatest ever blunder in the history of science, propagated for decades by scientists and non-scientists alike.
This book discusses the proper definitions of entropy, the valid interpretation of entropy and some useful applications of the concept of entropy.
This is an aim much to be commended. The usefulness of the entropy-diagram in actual engineering work has grown to be such that the live engineer earnestly wishes to know just what entropy is.
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As with the previous books by the author, this book aims at a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concept in thermodynamics -- the entropy.In this book, the concepts of entropy and the Second Law are presented in a friendly, ...
As with the previous books by the author, this book aims at a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concept in thermodynamics -- the entropy.In this book, the concepts of entropy and the Second Law are presented in a friendly, ...