Overview
- Provides a novel, but accurate introduction to statistical mechanics
- Using simple geometry and algebra, without high level mathematics and calculus
- Introduces the more easily understood, statistical explanation of entropy before connecting it to the more abstract thermodynamic definition
- Illustrates entropy changes for common examples in terms of the astronomical numbers involved
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Physics (SpringerBriefs in Physics)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This text is of benefit to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as educators and researchers in the physical sciences (whether or not they have taken a thermodynamics course) who want to understand or teach the atomic/molecular origins of entropy and the second law. It is particularly aimed at those who, due to insufficient mathematical background or because of their area of study, are not going to take a traditional statistical mechanics course.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entropy and the Tao of Counting
Book Subtitle: A Brief Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Authors: Kim Sharp
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35457-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35459-6Published: 25 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35457-2Published: 13 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2191-5423
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 63
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Physical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Statistical Theory and Methods