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Nature of Entropy

Nature volume 151, pages 138–139 (1943)Cite this article

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To the student of thermodynamics, the conception of entropy usually presents some difficulty. It seems to have no precise physical significance, but is often regarded as no more than a mathematical convention. This can only be due to inadequacy of our thermodynamic theory, since a quantity which fits so completely into the mathematics of the subject must surely have some relation to the physical facts.

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CAMPBELL, I. Nature of Entropy. Nature 151, 138–139 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151138a0

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