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" Entropy for biologists : "
Harold J. Morowitz.
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BL
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653170
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Morowitz, Harold J.
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Entropy for biologists : : an introduction to thermodynamics /\ Harold J. Morowitz.
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New York :: Academic Press,, 1970.
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xiii, 195 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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0125071566
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: 9780125071567
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Temperature -- Energy -- Introduction to kinetic theory -- Total energy -- The second law of thermodynamics -- The entropy function -- Probability and information -- Introduction to statistical mechanics -- The relation between statistical mechanics and thermodynamics -- Entropy, information, and energy -- Free-energy functions -- Thermal energy -- Applications of the Gibbs free energy and the Gibbs chemical potential -- Measurement in thermal physics -- Entropy and biology -- Appendix I. Conservation of mechanical energy: general treatment -- Appendix II. The proof of the equivalence of the perfect-gas temperature scale and the absolute thermodynamic temperature scale -- Appendix III. Entropy of a perfect gas -- Appendix IV. Stirling's approximation -- Appendix V. Evaluation of the partition function of a perfect gas.
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Entropy.
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Biophysics.
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Thermodynamics.
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QC318.M67 1970
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