The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the Future of Earth As We Know It

PART 1: The Birth of a Beautiful Theory 1. So what is all t his talk about entropy? 2. The science of heat and work: Cl assical Thermodynamics 3. Much more about entropy 4. Link of thermodynamics to modern physics

PART 2: Entropy and Our Society, Culture, Planet, and our Universe 5. Entropy, the economic process, and the world’s environment al problems 6. Energy, entropy and life and heat death 7. The use of the concept of entropy in other sciences

Epilogue

Appendix I: Two m ore laws of thermodynamics? Appendix II: Another way of loo king at entropy Appendix III: How does the gas heat up the air pump? Appendix IV: Will shuffling a deck of cards chang e the entropy? Appendix V: How much does the entropy change in the case of gas expansion and gas mixing? Appendix VI: Thermodynamic Timeline Appendix VII: Can the human body be considered a heat engine? Appendix VIII: Ways to concentrat