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Nineteenth-century physical chemistry needed a half-century to clarify the relationship between entropy and energy, i.e., to clarify the relationship between what we now call the Second and First Laws of Thermodynamics.
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Phillies, G.D. (2000). Entropy. In: Elementary Lectures in Statistical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1264-5_11
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