Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense with Seven Simulated Games

Ranked #63 in Physical Chemistry, Ranked #90 in Thermodynamics

In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years — entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept. Written in an accessible style, the book guides the... more

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