The Second Law: Energy, Chaos and Form ("Scientific American" Library)

by Peter W. Atkins

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"Atkins has set out to open the doors of understanding. He has succeeded quite admirably." New Scientist Moving from the steam engine to the nuclear age, and with virtually no mathematics, Atkins shows how the second law of thermodynamics - a single, simple principle of energy transformation - encompasses all elements of natural change.
  • ISBN10 0716760061
  • ISBN13 9780716760061
  • Publish Date 15 August 1994
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 December 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Scientific American Library
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 230
  • Language English