Thermodynamics is a young and poorly thought out science.
My beef is the adoption of bad names and pseudo-philosophy. In Gibbs free energy equation, there is a term called entropy but it is nothing more than the value for heat transferred for the given elements and given constant temperature and derived from experimental observation. Instead of calling it entropy, they could have called it Clausius constant. No need to confuse generations of students.
My beef is the adoption of bad names and pseudo-philosophy. In Gibbs free energy equation, there is a term called entropy but it is nothing more than the value for heat transferred for the given elements and given constant temperature and derived from experimental observation. Instead of calling it entropy, they could have called it Clausius constant. No need to confuse generations of students.