A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This article is intended for readers who, like us, were told that the second law of thermodynamics is one of the major achievements of the nineteenth cenwry—that it is a logical, perfect, and unbreakable law—but who were unsatisfied with the "derivations" of the entropy principle as found in textbooks and …