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[Laws of thermodynamics]

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Overview

In a general sense...

Heat engine diagram

History

See also: History of entropy

The first theory...

Informal descriptions

...can be stated in various succinct ways, including:

Available useful work

See also: Available useful work (thermodynamics)

See also

• Entropy
• Entropy (arrow of time)
• Final Anthropic Principle
• First law of thermodynamics
• History of thermodynamics
• Fluctuation Theorem
• Jarzynski equality

• Laws of thermodynamics
• Loschmidt's paradox
• Maximum entropy thermodynamics
• Statistical mechanics
• Perpetual motion

• Second-law efficiency

References

• Fermi, Enrico (1956) [1936]. Thermodynamics. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-60361-X.
• Rennie, John (2002), "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense", Scientific American, 287 (1): 78–85 Accessed 2007-09-10

Further reading

• Goldstein, Martin, and Inge F., 1993. The Refrigerator and the Universe. Harvard Univ. Press. A gentle introduction, a bit less technical than this entry.
• Maxwell's demon 2 : entropy, classical and quantum information, computing. Edited by Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex. Bristol; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, 2003

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics." by Lawrence Sklar.
• The evolution of Carnot's principle, by E.T. Jaynes, in G. J. Erickson and C. R. Smith (eds.) Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering vol. 1, p. 267 (1988).
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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