The second law of life : energy, technology, and the future of earth as we know it
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : John E J Schmitz
- ناشر : Norwich, NY : William Andrew Pub
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780815515371
Description
The Birth of a Beautiful Theory -- So what is all this talk about entropy? -- The science of heat and work: Classical Thermodynamics -- Much more about entropy -- Link of thermodynamics to modern physics -- Entropy and Our Society, Culture, Planet, and our Universe -- Entropy, the economic process, and the world's environmental problems -- Energy, entropy and life and heat death -- The use of the concept of entropy in other sciences -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Two more laws of thermodynamics? -- Appendix II: Another way of looking at entropy -- Appendix III: How does the gas heat up the air pump? -- Appendix IV: Will shuffling a deck of cards change the entropy? -- Appendix V: How much does the entropy change in the case of gas expansion and gas mixing? -- Appendix VI: Thermodynamic Timeline -- Appendix VII: Can the human body be considered a heat engine? -- Appendix VIII: Ways to concentrate energy: nuclear energy, photovoltaic cells, and fuel cells -- Appendix IX: Qualitative definitions and descriptions of entropy -- Appendix X: Some simple calculations and interesting numbers.
Entropy explains the amount of energy no longer capable of conversion into work; in other words, wasted energy or heat loss. This book refers to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, which is an omnipresent force that quietly and crucially determines many aspects of our society and daily lives.
