Entropy and the time evolution of macroscopic systems / Walter T. Grandy, Jr.

The work explicates the concept of entropy, particularly its governance of all of thermal physics, over a broad range of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena. Historical development and modern research are presented in the context of entropy as a fundamental element of probability theory and its...

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Main Author: Grandy, Walter T., 1933- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ; 141.
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