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In this chapter, we shall give an introduction to thermodynamic constitutive theories. We have already mentioned the first law of thermodynamics, the energy balance, in Chap. 2. Now we are going to consider the second law for which the essential quantity is the entropy.
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Liu, IS. (2002). Entropy Principle. In: Continuum Mechanics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05056-9_5
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