Time and entropy play a key role in the book, and all their facets are explained in an entertaining and competent way. Since the work of Ludwig Boltzmann in the nineteenth century, the concept of ...

THE engineer has no difficulty in understanding entropy. The boilerman says : “I give you steam with so much heat energy and entropy, and you want to know how much work your engine will get out ...

4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy Formula): S = k ln W Ludwig Boltzmann formulated this equation to describe ...

Ludwig Boltzmann, a 19th-century physicist, proposed that the arrow of time arises from the statistical behavior of particles ...