Length1h 53m
About this audiobook
From steam engines that always fall short of their promise to the one-way arrow of time itself, this book explains entropy — the quantity that prices every process in the universe. It follows the concept from Sadi Carnot's efficiency ceiling and Clausius's naming of it, through Boltzmann's statistical reinterpretation and Gibbs's ensembles, to the twentieth-century discovery that entropy and information are the same mathematics. Chapters cover how entropy is measured in calorimeters and tabulated from spectroscopy; its strangest behaviors, from residual entropy in ice to negative absolute temperatures; and its modern frontiers: Maxwell's demon and Landauer's principle, fluctuation theorems tested on single molecules, the thermodynamics of quantum machines, and the black-hole entropy that anchors the search for quantum gravity.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Discovery of Entropy
3Chapter 2: Understanding Entropy
4Chapter 3: Key Characteristics of Entropy
5Chapter 4: The Science Behind Entropy
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6Chapter 5: Observation and Measurement of Entropy
7Chapter 6: Important Features of Entropy
8Chapter 7: Entropy in Context
9Chapter 8: Modern Understanding of Entropy
10Chapter 9: Research and Exploration of Entropy
11Chapter 10: Significant Discoveries About Entropy
12Chapter 11: Challenges and Mysteries of Entropy
13Chapter 12: Future Directions in Entropy Research
14Chapter 13: Fun Facts and Trivia About Entropy
15Chapter 14: Conclusion: The Significance of Entropy
16References: Entropy
17Glossary
18About the Author
19Series Info
20Copyright
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