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Name: Equilibrium and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
ID: m12593
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: entropy, free energy, irreversible, Kinetic Molecular Theory, macroscopic, macrostate, microscopic, microstate, mole fraction, Second Law of Thermodynamics
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: John S. Hutchinson (jshutch@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: John S. Hutchinson (jshutch@rice.edu)
Maintainers: John S. Hutchinson (jshutch@rice.edu), Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman@astro.berkeley.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Jan 12, 2005 2:34 pm US/Central
Last revision to module: Jul 30, 2007 3:24 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m12593_1.3.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.3 Jul 30, 2007 3:24 pm GMT-5 by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Changed "ring above" [U+02DA] into "degree" [U+00B0].
Version: 1.2 Mar 30, 2005 2:37 pm US/Central by John S. Hutchinson
Changes: 
corrected serious typo in Table 1 data
Version: 1.1 Jan 13, 2005 9:20 pm US/Central by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
First version.

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