Book and Media Review
The Second Law: Energy, Chaos, and Form, Revised Edition (Atkins, P.W.)
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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- Received: August 03, 2009
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