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This article is intended for readers who, like us, were told that the second law of thermodynamics is one of the major achievements of the nineteenth cenwry—that it is a logical, perfect, and unbreakable law—but who were unsatisfied with the “derivations” of the entropy principle as found in textbooks and in popular writings.
Work partially supported by US. National Science Foundation grant PHY95-13072A01.
Work partially supported by the Adalsteinn Kristjansson Foundation, University of Icelan.
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Lieb, E.H., Yngvason, J. (1998). A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In: Nachtergaele, B., Solovej, J.P., Yngvason, J. (eds) Statistical Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10018-9_19
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