Four Laws that Drive the Universe
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Author(s): P. Atkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199232369
Format: hardback
131pp
Price: £9.99, $19.95
Review Date: 05 September 2007
Review: The four Laws of Thermodynamics can be said to direct and constrain everything that happens in the Universe. They specify the nature of ‘energy’ and temperature’, define times’ arrow, and explain the unstoppable rise of entropy. This readable book has chapters on: the concept of temperature (Zeroth Law); the conservation of energy (First Law); the increase in entropy (Second Law); the availability of work (free energy); and the unattainability of zero (Third Law).