Remove Astronomy Remove Chemistry Remove Equality Remove Natural Sciences
article thumbnail

How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. He immediately notes that “the total permutability measure of two bodies is equal to the sum of the permutability measures of each body”.

Energy 88