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Contents 1 Stub for outline only 2 Introduction 2.1 Microscopic systems 2.2 Energy dispersal 3 Overview 4 History 4.1 Informal descriptions 4.2 Mathematical descriptions 5 Available useful work 5.1 Special cases: Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies 5.2 Application 6 Criticisms 6.1 Applications to living systems 6.2 Small systems 6.3 Complex systems 7 Quotes 8 Miscellany 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links

[edit] Stub for outline only

[Laws of thermodynamics]

GSL

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Microscopic systems

[edit] Energy dispersal

[edit] Overview

In a general sense...

[edit] History

See also: History of entropy

The first theory...

[edit] Informal descriptions

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

[edit] Mathematical descriptions

[edit] Available useful work

See also: Available useful work (thermodynamics)

[edit] Special cases: Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies

[edit] Application

[edit] Criticisms

[edit] Applications to living systems

[edit] Small systems

[edit] Complex systems

[edit] Quotes

[edit] Miscellany

[edit] 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

[edit] References

•  Fermi, Enrico [1936] (1956). 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, <http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF> Accessed 2007-09-10

[edit] 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

[edit] 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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