Energy and Entropy: An Intimate Relationship — © 2020 Harvey S. Leff



Books (alphabetically, by first authors' last names)

Adkins, C. J., An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Atkins, P.,
The Laws of Thermodynamics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Baierlein, R.,
Thermal Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Bejan, A.,
Entropy Generation Minimization: the Method of Thermodynamic Optimization of Finite-size Systems and Finite-time Processes (mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series) (CRC Press, 1995).

Ben-Naim, A.,
Discover Entropy and the Second Law (No journal-Book manuscript, 2010).

Berry, R. S.,
Understanding Energy: Energy, Entropy and Thermodynamics for Everyman (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 1991).

Blundell, S. J., and Blundell, K. M.,
Concepts in Thermal Physics (Oxford University Press, USA, 2009).

Bohren, C. F., and Albrecht, B. A.,
Atmospheric Thermodynamics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998).

Boltzmann, L.,
Lectures on Gas Theory (J.A. Barth, Leipzig, 1896).

Callen, H. B.,
Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1985).

Capek, V., and Sheehan, D.,
Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Theory and Experiment (Springer, Dordrecht, 2005).

Chabay, R. W., and Sherwood, B. A. et al., Matter and Interactions, Vol. 1: Modern Mechanics, Third Edition (Wiley, 2011).

Coopersmith, J.,
Energy, the Subtle Concept : the Discovery of Feynman’s Blocks From Leibniz to Einstein (Oxford University Press, New York, 2010).

Craig, N. C.,
Entropy Analysis: an Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 1992).

Denbigh, K. G.,
The Principles of Chemical Equilibrium (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1961).

Dincer, I., and Rosen, M. A.,
Thermal Energy Storage: Systems and Applications (Wiley, 2010).

Dugdale, J. S.,
Entropy and Its Physical Meaning (CRC Press, 1996).

Fast, J. D.,
Entropy (Routledge, 1970).

Fenn, J. B.,
Engines, Energy and Entropy: a Thermodynamics Primer (W H Freeman & Co (Sd), 1982).

Finn, C. B. P.,
Thermal Physics (Chapman & Hall, London, 1993).

Gasser, R. P. H., and Richards, W. G.,
Entropy and Energy Levels (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974), p.

Gasser, R. P. H., and Richards, W. G.,
Entropy and Energy Levels (oxford Chemistry) (Oxford University Press, 1974).

Gibbs, J. W.,
The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs - Vol. 1 (Constable and Co., London, 1906).

Gould, H., and Tobochnik, J.,
Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Gould, H., Spornick, L., and Tobochnik, J.,
Thermal and Statistical Physics Simulations (cups) (Wiley, 1995).

Gross, D. H. E.,
Microcanonical Thermodynamics: Phase Transitions in ‘small’ Systems (World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2001).

Gyftopoulos, E. P., and Beretta, G. P.,
Thermodynamics-foundations and Applications (Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1991).

ter Haar, D., and Wergland, H.,
Elements of Thermodynamics (Addison Wesley, Reading, 1966).

Harte, J.,
Maximum Entropy and Ecology: a Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics (oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) (Oxford University Press, USA, 2011).

Holyst, R., and Poniewierski, A.,
Thermodynamics for Chemists, Physicists and Engineers (Springer, 2012).

Grandy, W. T.,
Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems (international Series of Monographs on Physics) (Oxford University Press, USA, 2012).

Kestin, J.,
A Course in Thermodynamics (Blaisdell Pub. Co., Waltham, 1066).

Kittel, C., and Kroemer, H.,
Thermal Physics (2nd Edition) (W. H. Freeman, 1980).

Kittel, C., and Physics,
Elementary Statistical Physics (dover Books on Physics) (Dover Publications, 2004).

Landau, L. D., and Lifshitz, E. M.,
Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Volume 5 (course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5) (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1980).

Leff, H. S.,
Energy and Entropy: A Dynamic Duo (CRC Press, 2020).

Leff, H., and Rex, A. F.,
Maxwell’s Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing (Taylor & Francis, 2002).

Lemons, D. S.,
Mere Thermodynamics (Johns Hopkins U. P., Baltimore, 2009).

Lemons, D. S.,
A Student’s Guide to Entropy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Moore, T.,
Lsc Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T (thermal Physics) (McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2009).

Morowitz, H. J.,
Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics (Academic Press, 1968).

Morowitz, H. J.,
Entropy for Biologists: an Introduction to Thermodynamics (Academic Press, 1970).

Morowitz, H. J.,
Entropy and the Magic Flute (Oxford University Press, USA, 1996).

Morse, P. M.,
Thermal Physics (W. A. Benjamin, 1969).

Müller, I., and Weiss, W.,
Entropy and Energy : a Universal Competition (Springer, Berlin ; New York, 2005).

Nash, L. K.,
Elements of Chemical Thermodynamics (Dover Publications, Mineola, 1970).

Pathria, R. K.,
Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1996).

Penrose, O.,
Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1970).

Reif, F.,
Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics (Waveland Pr Inc, 2008).

Rich, J.,
Ch 6. Fundamentals of Cosmology “thermal History of the Universe” (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

Rich, J.,
Fundamentals of Cosmology-ch. 4-"the Field Equations" (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

Rifkin, J.,
Entropy (Bantam, 1981).

Rock, P. A.,
Chemical Thermodynamics (University Science Books, 2003).

Schneider, E. D., and Sagan, D.,
Into the Cool : Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005).

Schneider, E. D., and Sagan, D.,
Into the Cool: Eneregy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005).

Schroeder, D. V.,
An Introduction to Thermal Physics   [intro to Thermal Physics] [hardcover] (Addison Wesley Longman., 1999).

Sprackling, M.,
Thermal Physics (American Inst. of Physics, 1991).

Starzak, M. E.,
Energy and Entropy: Equilibrium to Stationary States (Springer, 2009).

Swinburne, J.,
Entropy; Or Thermodynamics From an Engineer’s Standpoint, and the Reversibility of Thermodynamics (Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., London, 1904).

Thess, A.,
The Entropy Principle: Thermodynamics for the Unsatisfied (Springer, 2011).

Wasserman, P. A. L.,
Thermal Physics: Concepts and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Zemansky, M. W., and Dittman, R. H.,
Heat and Thermodynamics (McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., New York, 1997).

Zurek, W. H.,
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information (Westview Press, 1990).

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