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Author : Joseph Frederic Klein
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law written by Joseph Frederic Klein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. F. Klein
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ISBN 13 : 9781332223466
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law (Classic Reprint) written by J. F. Klein and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Physical Significance of Entropy or of the Second Law This article is intended for those students of engineering who already have some elementary knowledge of thermodynamics. It is intended to clear up a difficulty that has beset every earnest beginner of this subject. The difficulty is not one of application to engineering problems, although here too there have been widespread misconceptions, for the expressions developed by Clausius are simple, have long been known and much used by engineers and physicists. The difficulty is rather as to the ultimate physical meaning of entropy. This term has long been known as a sort of property of the state of the body, has long been surmised to be of essentially a statistical nature, but with it all there was a sense that it was a sort of mathematical fiction, that it was somehow unreal and elusive, so it is no wonder that in certain engineering quarters it was dubbed the "ghostly quantity." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Joseph Frederic Klein
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Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law written by Joseph Frederic Klein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Frederick 1849-1918 Klein
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781373019202
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (192 download)
Download or read book PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ENTRO written by Joseph Frederick 1849-1918 Klein and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joseph Frederic 1849-1918 Klein
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363580712
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ENTRO written by Joseph Frederic 1849-1918 Klein and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joseph Frederic Klein
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ISBN 13 : 9781296361549
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Joseph Frederic Klein and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. F. Klein
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517334994
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law written by J. F. Klein and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Physical Significance of Entropy" Prof. J. F. Klein has attempted to present the general conclusions arising from the investigations of Boltzmann and Planck, the former dealing mainly with molecular systems, and the latter with radiation phenomena. Planck's treatise was reviewed some time ago in Nature. The particular aspect of the problem here dealt with is the connection of the second law with probability considerations. In separating the conclusions from their analytical proofs, Prof. Klein has given the unmathematical reader a statement of results which he must accept on the authority of Boltzmann and Planck unless he is prepared to study up the original difficult mathematical investigations. The trouble is that these books fall into the hands of readers with whom a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and who without troubling to study the matter thoroughly rush into print with theories of their own, in which the most conspicuous feature is the flagrant misuse of elementary physical terms. Although these statistical considerations have certainly been successfully applied to the interpretation of current physical events, it must not be forgotten that they possess one important difficulty. While the theory of probability shows that the entropy of a system tends to a maximum, the same arguments appear to indicate the extreme improbability that the entropy should ever deviate from this maximum, and we are thus required to postulate an initial state of the universe, the improbability of which becomes increasingly difficult to understand as we go further and further back in the scale of time. It should be stated that Prof. Klein makes no claims to originality, and his book is well suited to specialists in other branches of science who want to know the gist of what has been done in this particular subject. -Nature, Vol. 89 [1912]
Author : Samuel Barnett Schryver
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Download or read book Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law written by Samuel Barnett Schryver and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sadi Carnot
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Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book The Second Law of Thermodynamics written by Sadi Carnot and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the motive power of heat by Sadi Carnot -- On the motive power of heat and on the laws which can be deduced from it for the theory of heat, by R. Clausius -- The dynamical theory of heat. -- By W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin).
Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 981462389X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Entropy and the Second Law written by Arieh Ben-Naim and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a clear and readable description of one of the most mysterious concepts of physics: Entropy. It contains a self-learning kit that guides the reader in understanding the concepts of entropy. In the first part, the reader is asked to play the familiar twenty-Question game. Once the reader feels comfortable with playing this game and acquires proficiency in playing the game effectively (intelligently), he or she will be able to capture the elusive and used-to-be mysterious concept of entropy. There will be no more speculative or arbitrary interpretations, nor “older” or “modern” views of entropy. This book will guide readers in choosing their own interpretation of entropy. Video intro on the Bestsellers on Entropy by Arieh Ben-Naim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fOsKyOlHw Request Inspection Copy Contents:Introduction: From Heat Engines to Disorder, Information Spreading, Freedom, and More…Forget about Entropy for a While, Let us Go and Play iGamesThe Astounding Emergence of the Entropy of a Classical Ideal Gas out of Shannon's Measure of InformationExamples and Their Interpretations. Challenges for any Descriptor of EntropyFinally, Let Us Discuss the Most Mysterious Second Law of Thermodynamics Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry and physics, academics and lay persons.
Author : J. S. Dugdale
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482272865
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Entropy And Its Physical Meaning written by J. S. Dugdale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy - a central concept in thermodynamics, but one which is often regarded as the most difficult to grasp. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept, and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical treatment which provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order at low temperatures. Dugdale includes here a brief account of some of the more intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and superfluidity.Entropy and Its Physical Meaning also includes a number of exercises which can be used for both self- learning and class work. It is intended to provide a complete understanding of the concept of entropy, making it valuable reading for undergraduates in physics, physical sciences and engineering, and for students studying thermodynamics within other science courses such as meteorology, biology and medicine.
Author : W. F. Magie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440064340
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)
Download or read book The Second Law of Thermodynamics written by W. F. Magie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Memoirs by Carnot, Clausius, and Thomson The science of Thermodynamics, founded by the labors of these three illustrious men, has led to the most important de velopments in all departments of physical science. It has pointed out relations among the properties of bodies which could scarcely have been anticipated in any other way it has laid the foundation for the Science of Chemical Physics; and, taken in connection with the kinetic theory of gases, as devel oped by Maxwell and Boltzmann, it has furnished a general view of the operations of the universe which is far in advance of any that could have been reached by purely dynamical rea soning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Arieh Ben-naim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338397
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition) written by Arieh Ben-naim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-06-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years — entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept.Written in an accessible style, the book guides the reader through an abundance of dice games and examples from everyday life. The author paves the way for readers to discover for themselves what entropy is, how it changes, and, most importantly, why it always changes in one direction in a spontaneous process.In this new edition, seven simulated games are included so that the reader can actually experiment with the games described in the book. These simulated games are meant to enhance the readers' understanding and sense of joy upon discovering the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812700528
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Entropy Demystified written by Arieh Ben-Naim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes very good reading for all students of thermodynamics, as well as for more-advanced people who do (or do not) feel comfortable with the fascinating concept of entropy.
Author : John E.J. Schmitz
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0815519303
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Second Law of Life written by John E.J. Schmitz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, and important book, John Schmitz brings order to the world of chaos that surrounds us. The Second Law of Life refers to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, which is an omnipresent force that quietly and crucially determines every aspect of our society, culture and daily lives. Unless we come to understand entropy, future generations will face consequences of the unstoppable laws of physics.Entropy explains the amount of energy no longer capable of doing work; in other words, wasted energy or heat loss. Each moment of every day, we lose irreplaceable energy and ômodernö technology is not helping. In fact, it is accelerating the problem at a catastrophic rate. û And we will ultimately face a heat death crisis and utter destruction of the Earth. Even actions we take to improve the environment may actually do more damage than good. For example, recycling is considered environmentally, socially and politically correct. Under the influence of entropy, however, it is a prolific waster of energy; we must look at entire systems, not just parts.It is critical that we find ways to reduce energy loss. Seeing the problems with greater clarity will lead to solutions. This fascinating and accessible journey through the second law of thermodynamics is a step in the right direction.
Author : Phil Attard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750319362
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Entropy Beyond the Second Law written by Phil Attard and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, that entropy increases, is arguably the most fundamental law of nature. And yet for some, entropy itself is a mystery, the cause of confusion and misunderstanding. How can it be that something so fundamental and universal be so hard to grasp? How can it have happened that thoughtful people appreciate the significance and universal applicability of the Second Law without understanding the nature of entropy, its sole concern? This book presents a coherent formulation of all aspects of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics with entropy as the unifying theme. This includes formulating equilibrium theory from first principles, and explaining the role of the Second Law in establishing the equilibrium state. It also includes establishing the foundations of non-equilibrium theory by generalizing the concept of entropy in an appropriate way. Finally, it addresses the relationship between classical and quantum statistical mechanics by invoking the collapse of the wave function into entropy states. A secondary purpose is to increase the understanding of entropy and the Second Law, and to correct misapprehensions and errors that have arisen over the years. By consolidating these approaches into a coherent and self-contained framework, it is intended to improve the understanding of this fundamental and fascinating area of physics. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are such important subjects that students, academics, and researchers need to have the fundamental concepts clearly and concisely presented, as simply as possible, and as part of a unified whole. To this end, the book motivates the mathematical theorems and derivations with detailed physical explanation, applications, and concrete examples.
Author : Robert Fleck
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031349504
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics written by Robert Fleck and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a brief and accessible popular science text intended for a broad audience and of particular interest also to science students and specialists. Using a minimum of mathematics, a number of qualitative and quantitative examples, and clear illustrations, the author explains the science of thermodynamics in its full historical context, focusing on the concepts of energy and its availability and transformation in thermodynamic processes. His ultimate aim is to gain a deep understanding of the second law—the increase of entropy—and its rather disheartening message of a universe descending inexorably into chaos and disorder. It also examines the connection between the second law and why things go wrong in our daily lives. Readers will enhance their science literacy and feel more at home on the science side of author C. P. Snow's celebrated two-culture, science-humanities divide, and hopefully will feel more at home in the universe knowing that the disorder we deal with in our daily lives is not anyone's fault but Nature's.
