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050 00 $aQC318.E57$bB46 2016
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100 1 $aBen-Naim, Arieh,$d1934-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEntropy demystified :$bthe second law reduced to plain common sense /$cArieh Ben-Naim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
250 $aSecond edition.
264 1 $aNew Jersey :$bWorld Scientific,$c2016.
300 $axxxvi, 235 pages :$billustrations (some colors) ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction, and a short history of the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 2. A brief introduction to probability theory, information theory, and all the rest -- 3. First let us play with real dice -- 4. Let's play with simplified dice and have a preliminary grasp of the Second Law -- 5. Experience the Second Law with all your five sense -- 6. Finally, grasp it with your common sense -- 7. Translating from the dice-world to the real world -- 8. Reflections of the status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a law of physics.
650 0 $aEntropy.
650 0 $aSecond law of thermodynamics.
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