Re: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

David Bowman (dbowman@tiger.gtc.georgetown.ky.us)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 7:37:33 EST

>David: Thanks for posting this. There's a lot of confusion about the
>meaning of entropy, and I count myself one of the confused. Could you
>recommend books or papers for further reading?
>
>Bill Hamilton

Ok. How about:

Robertson, Harry S., _Statistical_Thermophysics_, Prentice-Hall (1993)
(I would especially suggest reading the discussions and commentary in
chap. 9.)

Jaynes, E. T., Phys. Rev. 106 (1957), 620-630

Jaynes, E. T., Phys. Rev. 108 (1957), 171-190

Levine, R. D., and Tribus, M., Eds. _The_Maximum_Entropy_Formalism_,
MIT Press (1979)

Rosenkrantz, R. D., Ed., _Papers_on_Probability,_Statistics,_and_
_Statistical_Physics_, D. Reidel, Dordrect-Boston-London (1982)

Justice, J. H., Ed., _Maximum_Entropy_and_Bayesian_Methods_in_Applied_
_Statistics_, Cambridge Univ. Press (1984).

In the last three volumes be sure to look at the contributions of E. T.
Jaynes among the others in them.

David Bowman
dbowman@gtc.georgetown.ky.us