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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, and chaos in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion that any thermodynamic processes always admits to being reduced to the alteration in some way or another of the arrangement of the constituent parts of the working body and that internal work associated with these alterations is quantified energetically by a measure of entropy change, according to the following differential expression. In the years to follow, Ludwig Boltzmann translated these alterations into that of a probabilistic view of order and disorder in gas phase molecular systems. In recent years, in chemistry textbooks there has been a shift away from using the terms order and disorder to that of the concept of energy dispersion to describe entropy, among other theories. In the 2002 encyclopedia Encarta, for example entropy is defined as a thermodynamic property which serves as a measure of how close a system is to equilibrium as well as a measure of the disorder in the system ... Read more

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Ludwig Boltzmanns bekannte Vorlesung ueber Naturfilosofi von 1903-1906 wird hier zum ersten Mal der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der Autor behandelt grundlegende Konzepte der Mathematik (Zahlenlehre und Geometrie), er diskutiert physikalische Begriffe wie Materie, Raum-Zeit, Krümmung des Universums, sowie den Farbenraum. Daneben findet man philosophische Betrachtungen, vor allem eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit Schopenhauer, und Bemerkungen zu den schönen Künsten. Der Vorlesung vorangestellt ist eine kurze, reich bebilderte Biographie, ein Essay von S.G. Brush über Boltzmann und eine Einführung in die Vorlesung von G. Fasol. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more