A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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2000-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0003028v1

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Mathematical Physics

LaTex file. To appear in the April 2000 issue of PHYSICS TODAY

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.883034

This paper is a non-technical, informal presentation of our theory of the second law of thermodynamics as a law that is independent of statistical mechanics and that is derivable solely from certain simple assumptions about adiabatic processes for macroscopic systems. It is not necessary to assume a-priori concepts such as "heat", "hot and cold", "temperature". These are derivable from entropy, whose existence we derive from the basic assumptions. See cond-mat/9708200 and math-ph/9805005.

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