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From the perspective of the previous chapter, the central problem in thermodynamics is “How may one guarantee that the entropy of a system will increase to its maximum value regardless of the manner in which it was prepared?” In this chapter we start our investigation of this question.
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Mackey, M.C. (1992). Invertible and Noninvertible Systems. In: Time’s Arrow: The Origins of Thermodynamic Behavior. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9524-9_3
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