Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems

by Walter T. Grandy Jr.

Book Overview

This book is based on the premise that the entropy concept, a fundamental element of probability theory as logic, governs all of thermal physics, both equilibrium and nonequilibrium. The variational algorithm of J. Willard Gibbs, dating from the 19th Century and extended considerably over the following 100 years, is shown to be the governing feature over the entire range of thermal phenomena, such that only the nature of the macroscopic constraints...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546177
• ISBN13: 9780199546176
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"