Entropy
This chapter uses the results from Chapter 13 to define a quantity called entropy and to understand how entropy changes in reversible and irreversible processes. It also considers the statistical basis for entropy, and uses this to understand the entropy of mixing, the apparent conundrum of Maxwell's demon, and the connection between entropy and probability.
Keywords: entropy, irreversible process, Joule expansion, Maxwell's demon, probability
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