The Second Law: Energy, Chaos, and Form, Revised Edition (Atkins, P.W.)

Lou Massa
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10021
J. Chem. Educ., 1996, 73 (6), p A135
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA135.2
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1996

Abstract

As the title aptly states this book deals with the magnificent second law of thermodynamics, to wit: an experimentally accessible quantity, entropy is a measure of chaos, and characterizes by its increase the direction of spontaneous physical and chemical change.

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