Showing posts with label Entropy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entropy. Show all posts

Friday, October 20, 2017

Entropy

Any method involving the notion of entropy, the very existence of which depends on the second law of thermodynamics, will doubtless seem to many far-fetched, and may repel beginners as obscure and difficult of comprehension.

Willard GibbsGraphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids
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