Approaches to Entropy

• Main Author: Tame, Jeremy R. H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Biochemistry.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Biochemistry, general.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does not follow a rigid temporal order of events, nor it is meant to be comprehensive. It includes solved examples for a solid understanding. The...

Table of Contents:

• General thermodynamics
• Carnot and Clausius
• Maxwell and Boltzmann
• Gibbs
• Partition functions and ensembles
• Planck
• Einstein
• Shannon
• Nernst
• On Entropy as Mixed-up-ness
• Problems.