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Volume 5, Issue 9
1 September 1963
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Technical Education and Industrial Training
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Review Article| September 01 1963

WHAT IS ENTROPY? Available to Purchase

G.J. Franklin, B.Sc., Ph.D.
G.J. Franklin, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notingham
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-702X
Print ISSN: 0374-4701
© MCB UP Limited
1963
Technical Education and Industrial Training (1963) 5 (9): 421–422.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015339

STUDENTS OF engineering thermodynamics and of heat engines alike are confronted eventually with the question ‘What is entropy?’, and the difficulties which can be associated with conveying the answer are well known. One possible source of misunderstanding can be the attempt to define or introduce entropy in physical terms.

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