Entropy demystified
Subtitle: the second law reduced to plain common sense
By: Arieh Ben-Naim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789813100114; 9789813100121
Subjects: Entropy; Second law of thermodynamics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction, and a short history of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; title: 2. A brief introduction to probability theory, information theory, and all the rest; title: 3. First let us play with real dice; title: 4. Let's play with simplified dice and have a preliminary grasp of the Second Law; title: 5. Experience the Second Law with all your five sense; title: 6. Finally, grasp it with your common sense; title: 7. Translating from the dice-world to the real world; title: 8. Reflections of the status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a law of physics.