Category: thermodynamics
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Entropy and Miscibility Gap: Tutorial for Biologists
Simple regular solution as an example. In an adiabatically isolated system, the increase of the entropy corresponds to the formation of two phases from a homogeneous mixture.
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Prigogine: The new alliance
Quotes about beginning of scientific revolution.
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Erwin Schrödinger and Negative Entropy
A critique of the metaphor of negative entropy. Entropy as disorder in the 19th century. Schrödinger: Order, disorder and entropy. Discussion: Order and disorder. Understanding chemical reactions.
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From Boltzmann’s fluctuation hypothesis to Boltzmann’s Brain
Quotes from Huw Price – The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles and Pseudo-Puzzles. Also from Sean Carroll – Boltzmann Anthropic Brain.
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Entropy and Information
Critique on using information entropy in thermodynamics.
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Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach
A review of Haddad, Chellaboina, Nersesov, Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach. An interesting mixture of thermodynamics and system theory.