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[Laws of thermodynamics]
GSL
Introduction[edit]
Microscopic systems[edit]
Energy dispersal[edit]
Overview[edit]
In a general sense...
History[edit]
The first theory...
Informal descriptions[edit]
...can be stated in various succinct ways, including:
Mathematical descriptions[edit]
Available useful work[edit]
Special cases: Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies[edit]
Application[edit]
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Applications to living systems[edit]
Small systems[edit]
Complex systems[edit]
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References[edit]
- Fermi, Enrico (1956) [1936]. Thermodynamics. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-60361-X.
- Rennie, John (2002), "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense", Scientific American, 287 (1): 78–85 Accessed 2007-09-10
Further reading[edit]
- Goldstein, Martin, and Inge F., 1993. The Refrigerator and the Universe. Harvard Univ. Press. A gentle introduction, a bit less technical than this entry.
- Maxwell's demon 2 : entropy, classical and quantum information, computing. Edited by Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex. Bristol; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, 2003
External links[edit]
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics." by Lawrence Sklar.
- The evolution of Carnot's principle, by E.T. Jaynes, in G. J. Erickson and C. R. Smith (eds.) Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering vol. 1, p. 267 (1988).
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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