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ENTROPY DEMYSTIFIED
The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense
CONTENTS
FRONT MATTER
i
Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Arieh Ben-Naim
1
A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest
Arieh Ben-Naim
19
First Let Us Play with Real Dice
Arieh Ben-Naim
78
Let' s Play with Simplified Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law
Arieh Ben-Naim
92
Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses
Arieh Ben-Naim
116
Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense
Arieh Ben-Naim
129
Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World
Arieh Ben-Naim
146
Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics
Arieh Ben-Naim
186
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