This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does not follow a rigid temporal order of events, nor it is meant to be comprehensive. It includes solved examples for a solid understanding. The division into chapters under the names of key players in the development of the field is not intended to separate these individual contributions entirely, but to highlight their different approaches to entropy. This structure helps to provide a different view-point from other text-books on entropy.
1General thermodynamics
1.1Mechanics
1.2The First Law: conservation of energy
1.3 The Ideal Gas
2Carnot and Clausius
2.1The Carnot cycle
2.2The Second Law
2.3The Gibbs free energy G
2.4The Helmholtz free energy F
2.5Available work
2.6Maxwells relations
2.7The importance of entropy
2.8Summary
3Maxwell and Boltzmann
3.1The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
3.2The relationship between entropy and probability
3.3Uses of the partition function
3.4The H theorem
3.5Early critics of the H theorem
3.6Modern critics of the H theorem
3.7 Conclusions
4Gibbs <l£K
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